Boats on a River

Boats on a River
May 19 - June 10, 2007 (Opening May 23)
Dowling Studio
by Julie Marie Myatt
directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon

As part of the Guthrie New Play Program, 11 writers were presented with the opportunity to conduct research anywhere in the world for an experience that would fuel the creation of a new play. Three years after Julie Marie Myatt began her journey, her play Boats on a River will be the first of these plays to receive a world premiere.

Boats on a River is an unflinching look into the world of sex-trafficking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, through the eyes of Western aid workers at a rescue shelter. Poignant, smart, and at times humorous, the play renders these characters fully human as they attempt to help the young girls whose innocence has been sold to paying customers.

This production contains smoking.

Programming in the Dowling Studio is sponsored by

Digital River

Cast

Nathaniel Fuller, Yoko Fumoto, Peter Hansen, Dale Hodges, Kris L. Nelson, Mayano Ochi, Jeany Park, Randy Reyes, Rebecca J. Wall and Aeola Lu, Megan K. Mecklenburg, Anna Northenscold and Isabelle Yang.