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We Are Not These Hands

Macha Monkey Productions and Theatre Off Jackson proudly present the Northwest Premiere of
We Are Not These Hands
A Play by Award-Winning New York Playwright Sheila Callaghan

The Northwest premiere of We Are Not These Hands, a work by Sheila Callaghan (Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Dead City, Lascivious Something, and Kate Crackernuts).

Set in an unknown developing nation, We Are Not These Hands is a cautionary tale of love, power and global economics. Ever since their school was blown up, teenagers Moth and Belly have spent most of their days on the streets, their grim world colored only by the glow of computer screens through the windows of the internet cafe. That is, until a wandering researcher from a wealthy neighboring country comes to town. Uninterested in merely providing a chapter in his book, they try to convince him to take them back across the river to a life they have only glimpsed in the bits and bytes of the virtual world.

The genesis of We Are Not These Hands came to Ms. Callaghan during a trip to China, where in poor villages along the Yangtze, she noted illicit cyber-cafes hidden down side alleys. In news stories at home, she read of the death of 41 students, blown up while assembling firecrackers in their eastern China school, and of 24 people dying in Beijing when two teenagers set fire to an unlicensed cyber-cafe from which they'd been 86ed.

We Are Not These Hands is directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield (Patty Red Pants at LiveGirls Theatre) and features Amy Conant (Whacked and Scab at LiveGirls Theatre) as Moth, Mark Fullerton (One World Theatre company member) as Leather and Tinka Jonakova (The Von Foxies, Equus directed by Dan Savage) as Belly.