Event

Sleeping and Waking

In Person: Director JOE BANNO -- Director of 50 theatrical productions around the US and classical music reviewer of The Washington Post

Members $9
Public $13
Includes Reception

Sullivan Daniels his body wracked by terminal cancer agrees to undergo massive surgery that
will almost replace his entire body. The operation saves his physical life but leaves him in
a spiritual quandary: Who am I now -- who is the new Sullivan. An artist and a college teacher
of art history he no longer trusts his new hands and has given up painting. His once successful
marriage is quietly on the rocks: he keeps his wife at arms length if he fathers a child, whose will
the offspring bethe man whose body he has taken or the cancer-riddled Sullivan. Complicating
his life is an attractive graduate student who is drawn to Sullivan's paintings but is unaware of
his inner conflicts and growing embitterment. His English teacher best friend is a devout Catholic
who urges him to come to Sunday services. His is an ongoing struggle of return to life as he knew
it before his physical transformation or to embark on a new path. USA, 2009, 92 min.