The Eyes of the Blind
Dorothy Hoyer Scharlemann
Eyes of the Heart
by Catherine Filloux
Synopsis
When Thida arrives from Cambodia to join her brother and niece in the U.S., she refuses to speak and is completely blind, although her family's doctor cannot find any physical reason for her loss of sight.
Thida suffers from a psychosomatic blindness developed by hundreds of Cambodian women after witnessing the atrocities collectively known as the “killing fields” in the chaos of Cambodia during the 1970s.
As the family comes to understand her pain and her courage, Thida teaches her sophisticated American doctor the ways of the human heart.
With humor, poetry, and gorgeous theatricality, East and West intersect in this story of survival and hope.
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Publisher Playscripts
Eyes of the Heart is a play written by Catherine Filloux and published by Playscripts .
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