Performance

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 8pm.

Suggested Donation $5 — General Admission — No reservations required

Location

Like a Loss and The Wheel were presented at Unity Somerville, 6 William St., Somerville.

The performance space is not wheelchair-accessible.

Parking on William St is by permit only. General parking is available on College Ave. Please read signs carefully to avoid ticketing.

Faithful batman Henry Chapman does not often pry into the personal matters of his employer, the decorated Colonel Reginald Prescott Hawking. But when some of his master's burdens seem to grow too great, Chapman attempts to understand why Colonel Hawking has chosen to endure conditions as they are.

As those familiar with the Mrs. Hawking play series know, one of its most intriguing mysteries is the figure of the Colonel, the late husband of our hero about whom she still harbors so much resentment and complicated feeling. In this ten-minute play, set seventeen years before Mrs. Hawking and Mary ever meet, we at last get to meet this much-discussed man, and gain some insight into the nature of his strange, tragic marriage to our hero.

Beatriz and her sister Rosa are preparing for Rosa's wedding celebration, to be held on their Spanish farm sometime in the 19th Century, when they are interrupted by brash and demanding soldiers on their way to a war. The groom has been recruited, the wedding is ruined, and the soldiers take over the farm. A small girl enters the scene: the soldiers want to kill her or abandon her, but Beatriz decides to find the girl's deserter father, who is always just over the next hill. Beatriz and the girl, who does not speak, travel far and wide--and through the history of modern warfare--and encounter all the sinister, pathetic and desperate people that war creates.