My play Memory Lane is a Desert Road, which I wrote with my father, will be featured in Athena Project’s Read & Rant series this March! When you sign up, you will have the opportunity to read the script in advance, and then participate in a discussion about the play on Zoom. It’s like a book club but for new plays in development! The feedback from the participants and the Athena Project’s dramaturg will help me so much in editing the script. I hope you can join!
Monday, March 18 · 5:30 – 7:30pm PDT
Play Synopsis:
After her father travels to Sudan on a potentially life-threatening journey, Fatima spends her spring break from college searching through his boxes of photos in the garage. Her father, Mark, is a professional photojournalist for over 30 years, working primarily in the Middle East and Africa covering wars, famines, and other international tragedies. Fatima, his college-aged daughter, knows very little about his decades of life-threatening work, so she searches through boxes of photos and negatives for answers. The boxes include pivotal historic moments and unfathomable human suffering intermixed with family trips across the world. As she explores a life in photos, she learns more about him, as well as herself. This memory play is an exploration of how the past informs the future, how parents’ lives intersect with their children’s, how history and memory clash, and the search for answers to unknown questions in dusty boxes.
Nabra Nelson 
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