SPLINTERS
“It didn’t happen because of what you did.
It happened because of what they did.”
It happened because of what they did.”
Photo by C. Stanley Photography
Premiere Production in the Source Festival in Washington DC
Directed by Clementine Thomas
July 2010
Shortlisted for the 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award
Directed by Clementine Thomas
July 2010
Shortlisted for the 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award
When her younger sister goes missing, Sam’s family falls apart. This is a world where soap bubbles overflow the sink, a yellow raincoat is spotted in the most unlikely of places and the whole world hasto be re-assembled, one toothpick at a time.
PRESS
“Splinters… offers the discerning audience member a dozen pleasures, chief among them being Schwend’s astonishingly deft hand with dialogue. There is not a single line in two hours and ten minutes which sounds or feels inauthentic, and the characters are full, deep and complex..”
Tim Treanor, DC Theatre Scene
“Splinters… offers the discerning audience member a dozen pleasures, chief among them being Schwend’s astonishingly deft hand with dialogue. There is not a single line in two hours and ten minutes which sounds or feels inauthentic, and the characters are full, deep and complex..”
Tim Treanor, DC Theatre Scene
PUBLICATIONS
Excerpts published by Hal Leonard in Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012
Edited by Bruce Burgun
Excerpts published by Hal Leonard in Scenes and Monologues from Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Finalists, 2008-2012
Edited by Bruce Burgun
