Newtown

WILSON STAGE

WORLD PREMIERE

By Dan O’Brien
Directed by Elizabeth Williamson

Playwright Dan O’Brien imagines the early morning of December 14, 2012 prior to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and dramatizes a real-life meeting in January 2013 between the father of the shooter and the parents of one of the victims. His lyrical and unflinchingly realistic work is a heartbreaking and powerful interrogation of the complex causes of gun violence in American culture. O’Brien brings his experience as a father to this deeply intimate world premiere. While derived closely from documentary source material, Newtown is a fictional response to the tragic event, which focuses on the personal stories of the families impacted right before and five-weeks following the shooting, their search for healing and hope, and the possibility of forgiveness.