"American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace's The Liquid
Plain--by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that
valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed."--Time Out New York
On the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves
find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they
plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their
identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present
collide and flow into the next generation. Acclaimed playwright Naomi
Wallace's newest work brings to life a group of people whose stories
have been erased from history. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid
Plain was awarded the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New
American Play. This sweeping historical saga has enjoyed acclaimed runs
at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Signature Theatre in New York.
Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky. Her plays, which have
been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the
Middle East, include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One
Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours,
The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, And I and
Silence, The Hard Weather Boating Party , and The Liquid Plain.
Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), Joseph
Kesselring Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Obie
Award, Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New American Play,
MacArthur Fellowship, and the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for
Drama.
