Synopsis: Empire of the Trees is set in India in 1963. When Deborah, a young American woman living in New Delhi, strikes up a literary and romantic bond with a traveling Indian bookseller, she discovers she has a mysterious connection to ancient Indian myth. She tries to share her new awareness with her husband, an ambitious journalist, but clashes with his inter-cultural suspicions, and cruel facts of class and history. She seeks spiritual solace with the bookseller, and from the wise old Banyan tree in her yard – which causes her household to explode, and myth to spill into reality. Cast: 1W, 3M
Premiered at Abingdon Theatre with Wizard Oil Productions. It was a finalist for both the MultiStages New Works Award and the Stanley Drama Award, and a nominee for Outstanding Full-Length Script by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards
