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Seven Spots On The Sun

"Startling and visceral, Martín Zimmerman’s fablelike play [...] explores the brutalities of war and the confusions of recovery. The style is magical realism and it takes an unusually confident writer to sketch a junta and its aftermath in just eighty minutes. Zimmerman has that confidence." - The New Yorker

Seven Spots On The Sun

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    The village of San Isidro has been without its doctor for eighteen months. Moisés has remained a recluse, refusing to even look at a patient, since the day the army took his wife away during the country’s civil war. But when a mysterious plague begins to ravage the countryside around San Isidro, the local parish priest convinces Moisés to take action. And when Moisés examines his first patient, he discovers he has the miraculous power to heal this plague with the touch of his hand. But among the thousands of pilgrims who flock to San Isidro, Moisés is forced to confront his past, and the violence that tore it apart. A meditation on mourning, redemption, and revenge, Seven Spots on the Sun follows each character’s attempt to come to terms with the extraordinary loss they have suffered and the miracles they have witnessed.

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        Scene from the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre production of Seven Spots on the Sun

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      Martín Zimmerman

      Martín Zimmerman

      Martín Zimmerman is a bilingual, Latinx playwright whose plays include On the Exhale and Seven Spots on the Sun and have been produced or developed at The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley ...

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