Jennifer Haley recalls an assignment from when she was studying playwriting with Paula Vogel at Brown: Write an impossible play. Haley has built a career on plays that some may find impossible. They are sometimes set in virtual worlds as well as in the real one. She wrote one in the style of a graphic novel. Although technology allows her characters to live in alternate worlds, Haley says her plays are “not about technology but about the emotional relationships we get ourselves into.”
Davi Napoleon, a regular contributor to Live Design, is a freelance writer based in Michigan. Her book is Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater.
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