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What happens when twenty-five years after an event people come together to recall it? What happens when what they recall suddenly comes alive for them ? What happens when that event is the shooting of students on a midwest college campus during the protests of the Viet Nam war?

NIGHTWALKING is an exploration of the memories surrounding one day in May of 1970 when four students were shot to death on a college campus. It is a dramatic chorus of testimonies and the trip back in time for one of the witnesses to his own family. Often non-linear, dream-like with a chorale quality, NIGHTWALKING brings us the reality of those days as the civil war gripped the country, and the truth that can still never be fully understood of the tragedy that stopped a campus ­ and a nation.

NIGHTWALKING is the journey people must take to relive, remember and release from those times.

Margot

Catherine Woodson

Frank Woodson

Shannon

Richard

Kent

Michael Woodson

Anonymous (woman)

Guardsman

The Fourth of May 1970/ Woodson kitchen
May 1995/ a midwestern campus

Except for the Woodson kitchen scenes which are done with minimal props, all other action takes place in limbo.

The action takes place as seamlessly as possible

1995 Terrapin Theatre, Chicago
1995 Kent State University (OH)

For an excerpt of this play click this link NIGHTWALKING
For more information concerning The May 4th shootings go to the Kent State University website.

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