The Angel in the Trees & Other Monologues

One-act comedy-drama / 1 actor

A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex-girlfriend in a pub theater in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In The Angel in the Trees & Other Monologues, selected from over two decades of work, award-winning American playwright Dan O’Brien reveals, in heartbreaking and unwavering fashion, the humanity of lost souls longing to be heard.

Includes The Angel in the Trees, Boxing the Compass, Am Lit, or Hibernophilia; The Chameleon; Midnight Radio; The Window; Theotokoia (Hymn to the Mother of God); Three Pandemic Voices (Unknown Caller, After Krapp, Night Walk).