HOSTAGE is based on the true events of 1979 when students in Tehran took over the American Embassy and held American hostages for 444 days. The youngest hostage, a nineteen year- old Marine was in captivity for about six months when his mother flew from Wisconsin to Tehran in the hope of being allowed to see her son. Incredibly, the students allowed her a short visit. HOSTAGE imagines what happened in that room when mother and son were reunited, and the consequences the mother faced when she returned to the U.S. and was suddenly suspect in her own country. HOSTAGE is a play about patriotism, the political vs. the personal and the ferocity of a mother’s love.