AN ACCIDENT
A woman is run over and critically injured. The driver appears at her bedside. There are encounters in life that take you somewhere you've never been and never meant to go.
Well over a million people die in accidents every year around the world, but many more survive with various injuries of body, mind and spirit. Seven years ago, I was hit and run over in a traffic accident on my bike, joining others on the far side of one of life’s great divides. I discovered that accident survivors live in the world in a different way. The life and death scenario of the accident, itself, is of course dramatic in ways the process of recovery is not. But there is something in the latter that is compelling on its own terms— and never-ending. And yet it was not until recently that I was able to imagine writing this play. For it was then that the idea of a relationship evolved to tell the story.
