Gidion’s Knot

Playwright: Johanna Adams

Directed by: Lee Anne Mathews

February 12-28, 2016

Starring: Laurie McConnell* and Elizabeth Ann Townsend*

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Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely—or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.