Women of Lockerbie Opens September 14

Iowa City - Dreamwell's season of women's words will open in September with a play by Deborah Brevoort, The Women of Lockerbie, directed by Rachael Lindhart Sept. 14, 15, 21, and 22, 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society, 10 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City, IA. Reservations at www.dreamwell.com or 319-423-9820. $13 regular, $10 students and seniors.

The setting is the hills around Lockerbie, Scotland, where Pan Am flight 103 crashed on December 21, 1988. The play takes place on the 7-year anniversary of the crash and concerns the efforts of a group of Lockerbie women to gain permission and access to the clothes of those killed in order to wash them and return them to the victims' families. The women are joined by the parents of a crash victim who are looking for healing by visiting and seeking signs of their son at the crash site. The efforts of the women are impeded by the American government representative in charge of the warehouse storing the remains from the crash, a man who is anxious to wind up the 7-year long investigation into the crash. The play is modeled on Greek drama and epic in form, in spite of its contemporary events and people. It is a drama that examines how (and whether) people heal after a tragedy of great magnitude.