Role             Angel
Where:         New Mercury Theater
Playwright:   Sam Shepard/Joseph Chaiken

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Visitors...I was very proud of that. That was a play that Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaiken wrote. Joseph Chaiken was really just another monster of American theater. Everyone knows Sam Shepard. They were friends and Joseph Chaiken was older and he had a stroke and he went into aphasia, which is a condition of the mind resulting in loss of speech and is very confusing. (clip) In order to help his friend, Sam went to him and they wrote a play together about an angel who fell to earth and suffers from aphasia, and the idea was that it would help Joseph to get over his aphasia, or help integrate it, somehow, into his life.  And they came up with a really, really wonderful, interesting play, that's just not linear and not logical at all but really evocative about this angel that's fallen to earth. JM.com  2007