Fall Forward

In a church and two adjoining courtyards a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, four individuals reflect on isolation, loss, and the will to live after monumental tragedy.

Jan Leslie Harding, Dean Imperial and Joel Johnstone. Rising Phoenix Repertory, 2007. Photograph by Daniel Talbott.
Jan Leslie Harding, Dean Imperial and Joel Johnstone. Rising Phoenix Repertory, 2007. Photograph by Daniel Talbott.
Cast Requirements

2 men
2 women

Flexible Set

Publisher

Plays and Playwrights 2008 (NY Theatre Experience).

Press

"Fall Forward is heartfelt, profound, inspiring theatre ... a beautiful gift ... the gorgeous, wise truths in this remarkable play ... with some ineffable, spiritual, even supernatural elements ... punctuate with a heart-stopping moment of pure reality that's as moving and theatrical as the final act of Our Town. That's how deep Fall Forward finally goes. This is not just a 9/11 play; not simply a play about turning points, though it is that. It is, as its title tells us, about falling and about going forward."
--nytheatre.com

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Press

"A soul-searching play about loneliness and mourning ... refreshingly sober, spare, and humble."
--The Village Voice

Production and Development History

Produced: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for the Sitelines/River-to-River Arts Festival, at the John St. Methodist Church.