Willows

Listed cast: 5 characters and chorus.

After 27 years of living abroad Thomas, encouraged by a friend and travel companion, has finally returned to his hometown. It is a pilgrimage of sorts in hopes that he may find a semblance of peace after decades of inner turmoil. He encounters a local woman whose eerie knowledge about his past unsettles him, and who could well be the older self of a person he once knew, if it wasn’t for the fact that person died long ago. Nor does he expect to have visions of the river spirit who really seems to be an incarnation of the young girl whom he once abandoned to a tragic fate.

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