They butchered every member of my family with machetes. My mother and father were found, their limbs spread over our lawn. I listen to her words and feel something caving in. I don't want to cry. Professionals don't cry.
Playwrights see people as characters.
She is a doctor character. She is a strong, resilient, traumatized woman character. I bear down on the parts of my body where shakes are escaping. For my first 10 days in Zagreb, I slept on a couch in the Center for Women War Victims. The center was created three years ago to serve Serbian, Muslim, and Croatian women refugees who had been raped in the war.