(from left, hyphenates Carrie Preston, me, marcia Debonis, Susie Misner and director Julie Ann Emery at the international united solo festival, the wonder (best of the festival))
“You live across from the Twin Towers. It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning. Someone asks for help. THE WONDER follows a New Yorker through the city on a seemingly ordinary day. The ordinary people we meet, the ordinary things we see, on an extraordinary day in a time marked forever. It’s September 11, 2001. This is a true story about a neighborhood and its people as experienced by the playwright and her diabetic cat. A clear-eyed telling of survival; of discovery and, thankfully, humor.
A true story recorded for the archives of the 9/11 Museum.
This is the playwright’s memory of the day.”