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A New Play Looks at Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times carries, "A Playwright Whose Time Seems to Be Now."  It's written by Reeves Wiedeman. Writing a play about the death penalty should put you squarely in the middle of a moral debate. Yet Nathan Louis Jackson, whose ?When I Come to Die? traces the emotional turmoil of an inmate whose execution goes mysteriously awry, insists that his play is not political and that it takes no sides. ?I have a weird thing about killing folks,? the 32-year-old Mr. Jackson said. ?That being said, if somebody did something to my wife or my daughter, I might say, ?I don?t care what you do to him, as long as I never see him again.? ? But his play, which opens on Thursday night, and is Mr. Jackson?s second Lincoln Center Theater production, may frustrate viewers who want a polemic...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).