GODDESS OF MERCY

by Jenny Connell Davis

Kate and Mike struggle to hold it together as they juggle their fraying relationship, a major renovation, and his transcontinental commute. When Mike’s sister Brianna crash-lands on their couch after three years in the Peace Corps, and finds out Mike’s oil company is sending him to hush up trouble in the same part of Asia she just left, their opposing views provoke an international incident. A contemporary drama...

Kate and Mike struggle to hold it together as they juggle their fraying relationship, a major renovation, and his transcontinental commute. When Mike’s sister Brianna crash-lands on their couch after three years in the Peace Corps, and finds out Mike’s oil company is sending him to hush up trouble in the same part of Asia she just left, their opposing views provoke an international incident. A contemporary drama full of acid-laced humor, GODDESS OF MERCY asks tough questions about what it means to "mind our own business" in a rapidly-shrinking world.

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GODDESS OF MERCY

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: GODDESS OF MERCY by Jenny Connell Davis
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    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Jenny Connell Davis and their play Goddess of Mercy as a finalist for our 2014 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Jenny Connell Davis and their play Goddess of Mercy as a finalist for our 2014 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    ”

Development History

  • Workshop, The Playwrights' Center, 2014
  • Workshop, Asolo Repertory Theatre, 2014