American Eucharist is a 4 character, one-set full-length play. I began “American Eucharist”
when I was a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center Artists Residency.  
 
The play script is available upon request.
 
With the 1991 Desert Storm War in the background, four siblings meet one Saturday afternoon
in New Canaan, Connecticut to divide up their deceased parents’ possessions. This story takes
place over the course of one weekend as the family struggles to love and respect each other, even
as they face the betrayal and self-destruction of one of its members. That member, the eldest
brother, is an addict who was once a promising, antiwar idealist.

As the siblings find an equitably way to divide up their parents’ belongings, the eldest son’s
unforgivable betrayal is discovered by the other three, and he then overdoses on their decreased
mother’s pain medication. The next day, faced with his irreversible neurological damage, they
allow him to die in dignity.

This play bookends the coming-of-age of the baby boom generation, a generation that started
with the optimism of the antiwar movement and is now facing the inevitable diminishment that
comes with aging, and the result of family and political betrayals they never imagined possible.

AMERICAN EUCHARIST affirms the power that families possess to love each other.
 
American Eucharist had a directed reading at the June Havoc Theater, The Abingdon Theater
Complex, NYC.