When I first saw this story about 1:23,
I was taken aback. I've been running a blog about parents who harm
their kids - and here someone had gone and made a stage play about it.
I blanched, though, when I read the description:
What would bring a woman to kill her own child? As 1:23 explores, the answers are rarely simple. When the show begins, a mother appears on a television screen, pleading
for the return of her two young children, the incidental victims of a
carjacking. But as the details are examined more closely, her story
begins to fall apart and the nondescript black carjacker she blames for
the crime materializes only as a figment, a threat or an angel of
society's collective imagination. In another time, a police sergeant
begins an interrogation of another woman, who is being questioned in a
Texas station regarding the drowning of her five children....
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