Simon Levy
Simon Levy
E-mail: slevymuse@aol.com
Website: www.simonlevy.com
- She-Who-is-Made-of-Clay
She-Who-is-Made-of-Clay is the last of the Yokuts Indians in San Joaquin Valley, California, in the early 1800s. In his culture she is a homosexual (or what we would call a homosexual) and a revered shaman who straddles the world between man and woman. Only he can bury the dead of her people, and on his last day, she prepares to save the souls of her people by summoning the Great Rattlesnake God who will take them, and her, to Tihpiknits Pahn (heaven). This is an epic adventure of a shaman and savior, an astonishingly unique individual and a People who are extinct.
Winner, George Houston Bass Award (Brown University), Cleveland Public Theatre New Works Festival, and 2001 Mind’s Ear Radio Play Competition. Broadcast on WFHB, Indiana (2002), WBAI-FM, NYC (2000). Published in the Alabama Literary Review, Black Hat Press, and American Writing Magazine.
One-Act: 20-30 min. – single set
1M: 30-40s (Native American or Hispanic)
