"Harrison and Next Rung Productions provided amazing and unconditional support and advice."
Jeannette Brown (NRP's 2020 playwright and creator of MUTATION)
FEEDBACK HIGHLIGHTS
The online reading for MUTATION received the following comments in its talkback session:
“An intimate telling of the Vietnam war from the perspective of an impressionable, hopeful young man who was told being a cog in the machinery of war was his only option to succeed.”
“This whole show just has so much juxtaposition.”
“[MUTATION] was really just fantastically laid out through the script.”
“I suspect that Silent Guy, in an actual stage production, could steal the show.”
“The dialogue in this show is 100% believable and it’s just Dusty talking to himself 90% of the time, and I love it. It’s really good dialogue.”
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Jeannette Brown’s work has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Southwestern American Literature, New Millennium Writings, Descant, Steel Toe Review, and other publications. She is the co-editor of Literary Lunch, a food anthology. She has enjoyed residencies at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Rivendell Writers’ Colony and Hedgebrook/India. She lives in Knoxville, Tenn., where she is a bookseller at Union Avenue Books. Her novel, The Illusion of Leaving, was recently published by Texas Review Press. Jeannette has served several terms on the Board of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild, beginning in the ‘90s.
MUTATION
by Jeannette Brown
MUTATION is a stark drama recounting the mental meltdown of a young man isolated in the jungles of Viet Nam. An ocean away from his family and sweetheart, goaded by his co-worker, Dusty loses his grip on reality as he eerily communes with dead soldiers. Wit, dark humor, and cultural references counter the despair in this three-character play.
**This play has violence and offensive language. It is not recommended for children.**