Story: Tsutomu Yamaguchi was an engineer in Hiroshima on a business trip to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was city bombed Aug 6, at 8:15 am. He had forgotten his hanko (pass allowing him to travel), he went back to his office to retrieve it and was walking back to the docks when the US American bomber Enola Gay, dropped ‘Little Boy’ atom bomb. He crawled to a shelter, where he found his 2 co workers, and rested for a day. He went back home to Nagasaki, for the second blast three days later. The Bomber Bockscar dropped ‘Fat Boy’ Atom bomb on August 9. He was exposed to residual radiation while searching for his family. He married in the 1950’s, to another survivor, and had two daughters. He was the only person recognized by Japan to have suffered both blasts. He was satisfied just to be alive for a while. When he became older, he wrote a book, (Ikasareteiru inochi) and in 2006 in a documentary about Niju Hibakushi. Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, screened at the UN, in which he pleaded for abolition of atomic weapons. Late in life, he suffered from leukemia and cataracts-symptoms of radiation sickness. His wife died of kidney and liver cancer at age 93. His three children also had connected illnesses. This short play relives his tragedy, his anti-nuclear-war activism, and the revelation of hope and faith that made him feel there was a chance for mankind to overcome its dark side.

A group of telephone operators in New York City on a wildcat strike, after construction on the job makes hearing customers impossible. The camaraderie of the women, from varied backgrounds, cross generational, is the glue that holds the shop together. The construction noise is the last insult they can stand, on a job with almost non existent benefits and pay below the poverty level.

Elizabeth Jennings was a schoolteacher in New York City who desegregated the streetcars in 1854. She jumped aboard a streetcar reserved for whites because she was late for church, and her parents supported a lawsuit against the company that went to Civil Court in Brooklyn, where she was represented by Chester Arthur, later to be President of the U.S. This play is about the struggle against racism during the Draft Riots in New York, tracing Ms. Jennings' married life, the death of her infant son, her escape to Brooklyn and then New jersey, and her return to New York, when she established the first black kindergarten in the Tenderloin district up to her death at 74 in 1901.