HONORABLE DISCHARGE

SPECIAL OPERATIONS

Honorable Discharge a monologue for performer Lance Gharavi, written and directed by McMahon, juxtaposes the killing of a suicidal 15 year-old by police with the ongoing situation in Iraq. Using multiple voices and personas, quotes from news reports, Henry IV, and Tom Sawyer, the solo work examines illusions of security and the use of force through the metaphor of discharge and distance.
Modified Arts in Phoenix, AZ October 2003 and April 2004, produced by Theatre in My Basement. www.timb.org Dixon Place in New York City July 2004. www.dixonplace.org  Performance Studies International #11 (Brown University) April 2005.
Creation made possible, in part, through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.