Safe House, The at CITY LIT THEATER

By Kristine Thatcher
Directed by Terry McCabe

“Kristine Thatcher has written an important play, and it has landed in the hands of exactly the right theater company for its world premiere.” Newcity on The Bloodhound Law at City Lit, 2015

Kristine and Terry have worked together since he directed the Victory Gardens production of Emma’s Child, a script you can find in Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 1994. She is his longest ongoing playwright-director relationship. Kristine has won local, national, and international playwriting awards, including the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. This play is her second commission for City Lit, and was two years in the writing. A woman returns to her grandmother’s house for a visit. Suddenly she must look differently at the safest place she’s ever known.