The Women of Lockerbie

The Women of Lockerbie is such a dramatic and intoxicating piece of work that there is not much reason why one shouldn't do it. It does not demand an elaborate set, minimal in fact, usually done with black and white costumes, and only a handful of characters. The minimal set and costuming with beautiful lighting would make the characters pop immensely. Learning the language in this piece would help the students understand Greek theater but with a more modern twist. However, because there is so much meat to this play, it would be extremely hard to cut. Most of the time you'd have to cut the women chorus but that is what the piece is all about so you'd have to be REALLY careful when cutting. The women are especially important at the end of the play when they actually do get the clothes of the victims killed in the Pan Am bombing. Upon reading the play, one should ask him/herself why they felt they should cleanse the clothes their and not send them home for the families to wash? That question needs to be mulled over and over again while the director is working on the show. Yes, it is a spiritual cleansing of sorts but the women of Lockerbie didn't kill those people. Why did they have to wash the blood out of the clothing in their rivers and streams. Once that question is answered, then every other question can be answered easily.