A Reward for a Reward
Wednesday, December 20 2006
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A reward for a reward
Sarah Ruhl
Each year, the MacArthur Foundation awards grants of $500,000 to people whom it judges to be doing extraordinary work.
Playwright Sarah Ruhl is one of this year's MacArthur fellows. She has already won many awards for her plays, which include "The Clean House" and "Eurydice." Sarah talks with Dick about the stories, both mythic and personal, that catch in her imagination--and what it's like for her to see those stories on stage.
One person who inspired Sarah is Carlos Moran, a young man she met during a playwriting project in Los Angeles. Carlos grew up in foster care, and has now adopted his younger siblings. Carlos talks to Dick on tomorrow's program.
Actors in the play "Demeter in the City." Demeter (Bahni Turpin, right) loses her baby to a social worker
(Danièle Watts, left), photo: Michael Lamont
- See performances of Sarah's plays at Lincoln Theater and Second Stage
- Read Sarah's plays in the book The Clean House and Other Plays
- Visit Cornerstone Theater, where Sarah wrote "Demeter in the City" and met Carlos Moran
- Learn about Shields, an organization that partners with Cornerstone and inspired Sarah
- Read more about the MacArthur Fellows Program
- Read the passage Sarah quotes from E. E. Cummings
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Ahmed's Diary
Ahmed's family has been living in Syria for months. He's decided to go live with them, but he can't quite shake free of Baghdad, and lives now both in despair that his beloved city will ever return to normal, and in hope that somehow it will.
I would like to live in a place where people don't look at me and think I'm a terrorist. As I'm writing these words right now, I'm hearing gunfire, more sounds of armed clashes going on in the streets. What is happening to Baghdad? May God help us.
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