Author Description

<p>In the plays collected here--Ramp and Mushroom--Pulitzer<br> Prize finalist Eisa Davis mingles modes of myth and speculation, <br>documentary and fiction in two plays about family, desire, restorative <br>justice, ecological sustainability, and immigration amongst the working <br>class. Ramp adapts the foundational Egyption saga of Isis / <br>Osiris and sets on a near-future airline ramp, where siblings Isis, <br>Osiris, Seth, and Nepthys throw luggage on planes and bicker about our <br>thorny, precipitate futurity: should change be fast or gradual? Can the <br>ecological revolution we require for survival produce ease and peace if <br>it's rooted in violence? Is the path to utopia brutal? Must it be? Mushroom<br> centers on the lives, loves, and working conditions of the Mexican and <br>Central American mushroom-pickers in and around the town of Kennett <br>Square, Pennsylvania, where over 40% of all the mushrooms we eat in this<br> country come from. Through a series of intersecting <br>narratives traversed by English, Spanish, K'iche' and Malayalam <br>speakers, Mushroom considers a workplace dispute that has <br>serious ramifications for multiple immigrant families, mapping <br>how compassion and justice might intersect.</p>