"The Cure is a reworking of a play that I created in 1991. The
version done by the Ziggurat Theatre is a fully realized version of
what was really no more than a workshop in its first incarnation. The
majority of this 45 minute play is a faith-healing ceremony to raise
a dying girl. The play has three goals: 1) to devise a play where there
was a story and yet where the audience did not have language to rely
on. The sparse dialogue was in an invented language foreign to everybody;
and most of the communication was through the ritualized sound and movements
of the healers. 2) to create the experience for the audience of eavesdropping
on a real event. For this reason the play was played, not in a theater,
but in a room; was lit without stage lighting; and was without programs
or ushers – the usual trappings of a night at the theater. 3)
to try to engender a transcendent experience for the audience. Only
those in the audience can say whether we failed or succeeded."
- Stephen
Legawiec
