VERONIQUE WEST

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  • Creation
    • Szepty/Whispers
    • The time it takes me to get to you
    • Roots and Seeds
    • Marrow
    • Intrusion
  • Dramaturgy
    • Underground Absolute Fiction
    • In Response to Alabama
    • The light we'll never see
    • Geologic Formations
    • Corpo(real)
    • Clean
    • Her Name Was Mary
    • Sen - Nemuri
    • Mrs. Singh and Me
    • The Girls Project
    • Institutional Dramaturgy
  • Facilitation
    • Green Room Theatre
    • LEAP Playwriting Intensive
    • Gateway Theatre Academy
    • Art with Impact
  • About

Relation: Or, My Family's True Lies
Playwrights Theatre Centre

​At five, my mother walked barefoot across smoldering ashes. At thirteen, she wrapped a scarf around her mouth and defied the milicja. At nineteen, she was an illegal immigrant, sleeping in olive groves. Her reality often makes my fiction seem safe, self-conscious. But her experiences change every time we discuss them. And the women in my family have a gift for white lies, ambiguity, escape. For taking secrets to their graves...
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