2017/2018
A car mechanic, ladies on a pregnancy message board, and a colonial midwife all attempt to grapple with the mystery and mechanics of childbirth.
Nora is a hard-drinking musicologist whose colleague/lover is dragging his feet about leaving his beauty-queen wife. When Nora's hijinks land her at rock bottom, she goes on a quest to get counsel from the only source she has left: her estranged, evangelical mom. Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho is a horrifying comedy about love, despair and maybe, eventually, hope.
What happens to a drone pilot who is spending full days watching a young Pakistani woman and her family? What happens to the woman when she knows she is being watched? In AGAINST THE HILLSIDE, Sylvia Khoury imagines and examines the hidden human costs of this strange new warfare.
