THE KIND YOU CAN’T FIX

A one-act play by Chris Harth & Sami Habib

CAST:

Eustace: Chris Harth

Amos: Sami Habib

The Girl: Alivia Quattrocki

The play is called "THE KIND YOU CAN'T FIX". Think if Brokeback Mountain was about a divorced couple and also set at the end of the world. The working synopsis, however, is: "Set after the fall of the U.S. government, two exiled divorced cowboys wander through what is left of the American South and come upon a mysterious woman who has somehow been surviving, wordlessly and without the constant fear of violence the men have been conditioned to. Her very existence challenges the foundation of their crumbling relationship and the politics of their survival."

A quote that inspired the play:

"Right and Left political perspectives are founded, above all, on different assumptions about the ultimate realities of power. The Right is rooted in a political ontology of violence, where being realistic means taking into account the forces of destruction. In reply the Left has consistently proposed variations on a political ontology of the imagination, in which the forces that are seen as the ultimate realities that need to be taken into account are those forces (of production, creativity...) that bring things into being... The situation is complicated by the fact that systematic inequalities backed by force - structural violence - always produces skewed and fractured structures of the imagination... Our customary conception of revolution is insurrectionary: the idea is to brush aside existing realities of violence by overthrowing the state, then, to unleash the powers of popular imagination and creativity to overcome the structures that create alienation.

Over the twentieth century it eventually became apparent that the real problem was how to institutionalize such creativity without creating new, often even more violent and alienating structures. As a result, the insurrctionary model no longer seems completely viable, but it's not clear what will replace it." - David Graeber