Thought-Provoking

Boy was an LA Theatre Works listen for me of the Anna Ziegler play, inspired by a true story.    It really deals with the issue of finding sexuality and identity regardless of body parts, but not in case of a person who is born in the wrong body.  In this play the main character is injured when he is circumcised and a doctor then removes his penis and he is then raised as a girl rather than being a boy without a penis.   This is a really, really moving and touching and loving play.  It is HARD play.  Very sad, too.  And the end was just excellent.

Human Nature

I have talked a lot about human nature.  We do horrible things to one another. And the German and Japanese atrocities that led to WW2 are examples of the very worst, of the most horrific behavior that humans have demonstrated. These are the stories that chill one's soul.  No matter how many times I hear them, I am sickened and shocked in whole new and terrible ways.  It seems ironic, maybe, if that is the right use of the term that Hitler and the Nazis would deem Jews, Gypsies,  homosexuals, persons with exceptional abilities to be "inhuman"  when Hitler and the Nazis behaved in such ways that suggest that they are completely void of any kind of humanness.  Even if humanity is evil, how can people such as these have been SO evil.
Prisoner B-3087 is based on the story of Yanek Gruener who survived unspeakable hell at the hand of the Nazis.  Alan Gratz does a remarkable job doing what must have been a hell to write, but needed to be written.