Scar Tissue
A heart surgeon whose own heart is in disrepair takes on a new patient — a veteran — and is overcome by the loss of her daughter, who died in the war in Afghanistan.
Company of Angels, Los Angeles, 2011 · dir. Nathan SinghRead the script ↗
Grief, practiced professionally: the surgeon repairs hearts for a living, and the distance she keeps from her patients stops holding.
Production history
- Company of Angels, Los Angeles, 2011, directed by Nathan Singh — presented as part of Fatigued — with Carolyn Zeller (Alma), Monica Sanchez (Claudia), and Christopher Hampton (Lee).
- Staged reading alongside Thisability, directed by Jorge Huerta, 2012.
- Kilkenny Amateur Theatre Society (KATS), Ireland, August 2024 — the play’s international premiere.
In print
Published in The Best American Short Plays 2010–2011; excerpted in Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, Vol. 3, and Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre.
Can be produced on its own, or paired with Thisability — same cast of three — for a full night of theatre.
From the production
Production photos from the Company of Angels production, courtesy of Gabriel Rivas Gómez