- A MATTER OF GRACE

A Matter of Grace exposes the ugly side of the American economy: the downsizing, the greed, and the games we play with other people's lives. A modern day Faust, the story hinges on a bet. A deal is made between Joanne Lugano, the advertising sales director at a small cable TV network, who has sacrificed everything for her career and having hit the glass ceiling is now driven only by the amount of pain she can inflict upon others, and her assistant, Ann McKenzie, a single woman in her late thirties struggling to keep a job in a career she never wanted in a world she never envisioned. The rippling effects of this bet envelop the lives of everyone in the office and beyond, ultimately entrapping Joy, a homeless woman on the streets of Manhattan, who becomes their unwitting victim in this cat-and-mouse game of life and death. Through the lives of three women we watch as they gradually switch places, reversing roles, as their dialogue overlaps and their lives mirror one another in ways that blur the line between the rich and the poor - "there but for the grace of God go I." (read excerpt)

Full Length Play: Cast Breakdown:

Drama 3 Woman (30-50) 2 Men (One 55+; the other 25+)

NOTE: Contains Strong Adult Language