We Are Not These Hands

Theater Off Jackson, Seattle

About the Show

Theatre Off Jackson & Macha Monkey Productions present the Northwest premiere of We Are Not These Hands, by Sheila Callaghan. Joy Brooke Fairfield directs.

Set in an unknown developing nation, the play is a cautionary tale of love, power, and global economics. Ever since their school was blown up, teenagers Moth and Belly have spent most of their days on the streets, their grim world colored only by the glow of computer screens through the windows of the internet cafe. That is, until a wandering researcher from a wealthy neighboring country comes to town. Uninterested in merely providing a chapter in his book, they try to convince him to take them back across the river to a life they have only glimpsed in the bits and bytes of the virtual world.