A presentation of new plays exploring the controversies facing the contemporary American medical landscape will be performed at 6 p.m. today at the UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Conference Room 0-12101.
Written by students in Steve Langan’s upper level “Reading and Writing in Sickness and Health” course at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the plays each tackle important topics in dramatic ways. The program has been created in conjunction with Theater for Social Change, a New York City-based program that brings playwriting and research curriculum to universities in the belief that storytelling is a crucial element towards understanding and addressing the central issues of our time.
An open discussion of the issues raised within the plays will take place afterward. Discussion participants will include Langan, interim director and community liaison of medical humanities at UNO; Julia Hansen, former president of the Drama League of New York, who conceived and administered The Directors Project, a national training program for young directors; and Stephen Cedars, a writer, director and teacher originally from south Louisiana whose plays have been produced or developed both in New York City and throughout the country and published by Original Works and IndieTheatreNow.