The Women of Lockerbie
by Deborah Brevoort

Name: The Women of Lockerbie
Brand: Deborah Brevoort
SKU: 9780822220794
Rating: 4.31 (248 reviews)

Off-Broadway Off-West End

The Women of Lockerbie Book Cover — The Women of Lockerbie Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

105 mins 1990s Expandable Casting Flexible Cast Size Room for Extras Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Synopsis

A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains seven years after he was lost in the crash of Pan Am 103.

She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage.

The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families.

The Women of Lockerbie is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional.

Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate.

Themes Grief--Drama Grief Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988--Drama Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988 PS3552.R4155 W66 2005 Women Women--Scotland--Lockerbie--20th century--Drama

Press Reviews

"Catches the grim mood [of a terrorist attack] better than anything I’ve yet seen on the subject of 9/11 and its aftermath. In its tightly controlled depiction of collective sorrow, it becomes almost unbearably moving."
— The Telegraph (UK)

"Playwright Deborah Brevoort has a gift for high poetry and her descriptions of the day when death came raining down on Scotland are impressively moving… endowed with character, poetry and a core of touching emotion."
— Time Out London

"Gives powerful voice to a disturbingly contemporary anguish: how to respond to suffering caused by a terrorist attack… the play has the power to move an audience to new hope in a world witnessing continual acts of revenge and hatred."
— Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

"This finely honed play has the formal beauty of a Greek tragedy. The result is a play where not a minute is wasted in verbiage – where you are gripped from the opening moment and not released until the end."
— Green Left Weekly (Australia)

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
MADELINE LIVINGSTON A suburban housewife from New Jersey. Her twenty-year-old son, Adam, was killed in the Pan Am 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland.	female	10	A suburban housewife from New Jersey. Her twenty-year-old son, Adam, was killed in the Pan Am 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland.
BILL LIVINGSTON Her husband, father of Adam.	male	—	Her husband, father of Adam.
OLIVE ALLISON An older woman, from Lockerbie. Leader of the laundry project.*	female	—	An older woman, from Lockerbie. Leader of the laundry project.*
WOMAN 1 and	—	—	and
WOMAN 2 Middle-aged women, from Lockerbie.*	—	—	Middle-aged women, from Lockerbie.*
HATTIE A cleaning woman, from Lockerbie.	female	—	A cleaning woman, from Lockerbie.
GEORGE JONES The American government representative in charge of the warehouse storing the remains from the Pan Am 103 crash.	—	10	The American government representative in charge of the warehouse storing the remains from the Pan Am 103 crash.