December 4, 2023 – Peace Corps Worldwide

THE SHOWGIRL AND THE WRITER by Marnie Mueller (Ecuador)

Dec 04 2023

Dear Friends, Family, and Colleagues, My latest book, The Showgirl and the Writer: A Friendship Forged in the Aftermath of the Japanese American Incarceration was published in July of this year by Peace Corps Writers, an Imprint of Peace Corps Worldwide. I am grateful to many of you who have read, reviewed, and referred the book to potential readers. For others, The Showgirl and the Writer is a hybrid memoir/biography about my long friendship with Mary Mon Toy, a Nisei performer who had been forcibly removed from her home to an American concentration camp in Idaho during WWII. Our underlying bond was the incarceration of Japanese Americans; I was born in the Tule Lake Japanese American high security camp in California where my Caucasian parents had volunteered to work. This book has been a labor of love, a personal and political journey. When I learned upon Mary’s death in 2010 that she had been keeping . . .

KILL THE MAGESTRATE . . . A PLAY by Abbey Fenbert (Ukraine)

Dec 04 2023

In the news — The Kiev Independent by Abbey Fenbert (Ukraine 2008-11) On a moonlit autumn night circa 1600-something, six women gather in the woods of an unnamed New England town to plot the murder of their local magistrate. But as the night wears on, the trees seem determined to deliver messages and strange objects fall from the sky — and the conspirators’ varying reasons for wanting the magistrate dead start to threaten their alliance. This energetic, heightened, time-bending new play askstheage-old question: when you violently overthrowthepatriarchy, how do you avoid replacing it with something worse? Thanks to the support of tireless Boston theater champion Jack Welch, this residency gives Boston University alumni writers 30 hours of development time to explore, evolve, and experiment with collaborators. The playwright workshops their play-in-progress and shares it in a public reading. We hope you’ll join us here at Boston’s Playwrights’ Theatre on Dec. 4, and . . .

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