The Lie of the Body | Karen Foster | Arts | Performing Arts | eBooks
The Lie of the Body
by Karen Foster
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This play was commissioned to raise funds for The Lupus Foundation. Lupus, a disease that
destroys not only the body and the hopes of an individual but also her or his family.
Woman: My husband works 50 to 60 hours a week. Then he comes home and cooks and cleans. He does the laundry and takes care of our six children. He takes care of me. Many times he becomes so angry he yells at me. I try to understand that he has so much stress. I want to leave my house and do normal things. I want to shop for groceries. I would love to go out to dinner or a movie. Take my children for a walk on the beach. JOE: 16,000 American develop lupus each year. MAN TWO: 500,000 to 1.5 million Americans have been diagnosed with lupus. ALL: 7000 die each year. About the Author: Karen Foster is a playwright, a poet, and a short story writer. Her plays have been performed at the Lincoln Community Playhouse in Lincoln, NE; her poems published in such journals as Hurricane Alice, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; and her short stories in Briar Cliff Review and The Readers among others. |
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