NEW LIFE
Full-length drama / 2 actors, multiple roles
The war reporter in Syria, the playwright in treatment for cancer—together they endeavor to sell a TV series. The conclusion in O’Brien’s trilogy of poetic docudramas, with The Body of an American and The House in Scarsdale, New Life dares to dream of healing after trauma, and of telling the truth of war as entertainment. A tragicomedy.
New Life was commissioned and developed by Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, and supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art. New Life has received development at the New Harmony Project, the LA Writers’ Workshop Festival at Center Theatre Group, and PlayLabs at The Playwrights’ Center.