Just once I would like to have a philosophical discussion something illogical without you using the same old your the Catholic response it is so damned irritating Sydney every time your the Catholic Margaret I haven't sakes because I'm a Catholic doesn't mean I don't have doubts and questions about the tragic nature of life I've seen too much of this world not to have questions to ponder justice you insult my use of experience and my intelligence sorry I am a far more complicated person than you give me credit for I know I'm sorry sometimes I think that you assume because I took a vow of chastity as a young woman that I can't really comprehend what these girls have gone through I never said that you didn't need to it's in your arrogance arrogance to patronize me sometimes Sydney how you think a woman has had to have had sex with a man to understand the trauma that these little girls have experience that's not true no no but yes Ok. Maybe in some ways I see your life as a bit of a sheltered one see and to believe in a pope and a church with so much corruption abuse that doesn't believe in Perth control who spent 4 years of her life in Africa passing out condoms I know you do that for more years taking care of Aids victims but you think that I don't but I have never left the church you think that's a contradiction on my part yes Cambodia is a country full of corruption and contradiction in Sydney and you haven't left it no but I have a family here now that's working out very well at the moment Ok. Ok the church is my family I don't know where this conversation is going but. You obviously woke up with a bee in your bonnet about so my point Sidney. Is that a person can have contradictions in her character and country and beliefs and still do the good work in the world she feels called to do I don't disagree with that and the reasons a person is called to help these little angels may have nothing to do with being a Catholic the reasons may be just as complicated and confusing and private as the woman herself I suppose. If you'll excuse me I've got my little dollies to wake Margaret I'm sorry I don't know what kind of god lets people suffer the way they do that's why we're a good team Mr Webb I know you want waiting around for answers you simply plan forward to get things done thank you well I believe that all of those things you do and do well and that I'm here to help you with the actions of God Now get dressed. You. Know. Let me ask. You as a man what are you reading you know. You're right to read we have a pretty good library here I don't know how to read I see you are well whatever you been learning in class how to sit still bad to good skill. It's one that I've never quite mastered what about you what are you good at it you know well I guess we have something in common Max tells me that you have a birthday coming up I thought Max is supposed to keep things a secret is your birthday a secret you know we're going to didn't do anything wrong but he did tell me one other thing. That you're not happy here that's not a secret and I guess not. Why do you think you're not happy. You miss your friends Yes I can understand that. I have a lot of friends I wish I could see and I live a long way from here and I have some friends I haven't seen in 15 years but you could see them if you wanted to me you know what it would take a lot of effort no one will let me see my friends now. You want to go back yes. Why because people like me they're people like you here no they don't have you given them a chance all these girls they think they will have a better old life but doing what sewing shirts in a factory selling shampoo and cigarettes on the sidewalk cutting hair in a beauty shop what's wrong with that it's stupid why no one wants us that's not true no one will ever love us marry us why were dirty that not true boys are like gold girls I like cotton I know I know it will always be cold but once cotton is dirty it's worthless I know that saying that's a lie you have the same saying in Vietnam because it said doesn't mean that you have to believe it. What difference does it make everyone else does I don't. You could tell us what you want Mr Webb what you think is right what you believe what people in America believe what Sister Margaret believes but all these girls here no matter how many times you tell us no matter what you tell us we all know inside we know who we are well we are that we are dirty and can't ever be cleaned I don't believe that all this is just make believe a vacation we will never really have all the things you try and tell us we will we just pretend and let you enjoy watching us pretend you're pretty smart for a 13 year old I may be 14 no one really remembers my birthday. Just made that date up from what a friend of my mother's told me once I say I could be turning 1515 my wife was 15 when she came here from Vietnam. I heard she's pretty she has why you sleeping here. My wife was brought here just like you she didn't ask to come and like you she was working in a brothel where she had many friends they were her family even after she started working in a bar where I met her matter in a bar Yes and I fell in love with her and married her you love her yes and why are you staying here it's complicated. My point is for years she thought she was dirty even after we were married. She was still cry sometimes because she was convinced I would leave her you did leave her I know I didn't I mean. I didn't leave her because of that I haven't left her. I thought. I would never leave her because of that yeah. Ever and any man who would is dirt not gold to understand I can't count on meeting a white man in a bar. I can't count on anything. I came in town how old I really am. Besides. The doctor says I'm sick. What does any of it matter anyway. Yeah. What you do hear all day what. Sit under tree lays around like a cat no one usually I mean it doesn't look so difficult to do so what you call it John Ging are the kids with you in school. I thought you might like a change of clothes thanks that should could use an iron you know probably do you want me to take it with me I can bring it back Oh Ok bye. Everyone will think I'm lazy. To look I'm fine my God it doesn't feed you enough I'm fine time you look terrible I should've brought a food we have food here Ok you don't need my food where is everyone just the calm and the storm I think. That's too bad why you like to distort No I don't it make you feel important. Save Indigos. Thank you for the clothes Tom I appreciated you didn't need to make the trip but thank you. You looked I. Am gonna come home. Ok. Ok I know you don't want to talk to me I understand you like me better quiet no quiet and obedient that's not true full of a gratitude to my own American husband Thank you Mr go home Tom I can't talk to you when you're like this how Tom how I didn't mean. I've got work to do. I bring to you No no do you hate me no no no why won't you talk to me I wanted you touch me any more you think I'm ugly and stupid I can't talk to you when you're not rational Tom it's impossible Ok you want a smart white rational wife that's what you want now you done with me you want an easy out why do woman who has a college education who will never ask you to stay with her at night that's not true you want still mom who understand things you think that I don't understand and I intellectualism a deed who come from a good family a smart American woman who the rational all the time a college to go from Connecticut to just like you know stop God see. Tom Ok just go home we can talk later I've got work to do we want to talk later Tom We never talk Tom please please I cook you eat you play with the children you go to sleep you go to work you wanted to separate I want to you know husband I can't I. I can't keep going in the same goddamn circles with you it's exhausting. That's what married people do not like us how do you know it's different. Because I'm an educator Sidney know because I come from nothing no Ok I know because I'm stupid and exhausting and this kid and I don't understand. Some of the culture words you use Ok dad is a who I am Ok I know who I am a see me but I am still you wife the only thing I am asking you to do is to come home and talk to me. Talk to me like you love me maybe it try and touch me either when I am not to ration No I have tried to try again why how awful it is to stand here. Baking. How potato comes to seem to why or why so I can tell you the same things over and over again things. You refused to believe so I guess I can tell the kids to go back to bed don't worry mommy is Ok Daddy's not hurting her mom is just. Why. Because you love me. Don't You Yes. Do you yes. Do you still think I'm beautiful Yes Tom I love you I think yes I think your very beautiful it has nothing to do with that then what does it have to do with it tell me they want to make me stand here lonely. I'm a try I'm rash know right now I'm tired you cry every time I touch. Not every time. I can't take it anymore. And hungry to his top please God. Please don't apologise. Ok. Ok. I understand I am a quiet now. That you get back to work. I know. How important do you work is to you. Ok. I'm a great time here in Cambodia. Wonderful. Mind expanding. People are friendly. Food is great. Everything cheap. And it's really pretty much the top notch trip so far. Really been something. She a lot of great shots. Really enjoying. What are you drawing call up. What are you drawing my mother we have other colors if you want I know why does she look like this. Are you sure why is the whole page covered in black I like this color I see. Lida. Well you haven't drawn anything there's nothing in the jaw nothing no nothing you're thinking about your family today. Can I sit in your lap Mr Marx no. I'm sorry you can't if you want me to I well I don't mind I don't want you to need. Don't you like me of course I like you but I will never ask you to do those kinds of things I can like you just because your lead I told you that right yes you don't have to do those things anymore. What if I just wanted to sit there I'm sorry I'm sorry the To Do you want to talk about it do we have to talk today no I guess not good. Look at me bowing like a regular native. Trade I like this custom really grows on you. Are you alright i'm fine i called your office and they said you were in Bangkok I was I'm back now I say what happen to those little twins those babies the couple that I met in the hotel wanted to dop them and left me for messages that they were still the how are we found a relative of the mother who wanted to adopt Oh how is Bangkok but they could have had a big backyard there over their business. Where Bangkok oh yeah action for all had a conference how to go. 4 days of long boring meetings about the continued increase in the sex trade and sex trafficking new anti trafficking laws and the details of those laws who wrote them and why and to conclude Powerpoint lectures on the growing impossibilities of stopping sex trafficking in Southeast Asia productive the sex trade is to Southeast Asia what oil is to Saudi Arabia and Iraq was that the slogan of the week it's just a different kind of war by the end of it I had to stop listening. I tried a little recreational drugs to just going to get my head back on straight. It's everywhere there. Are you know those little trips to my subconscious they can get really habit forming. Did you find anything. Where. Oh. So are you visiting the shelter for any particular reason and I know just checking in wanted to see how my small victories in the midst of my big failure are doing. Well the 2 youngest are doing great actually really on the getting counseling the sleeping better not making friends they become obsessed with getting and writing bicycle. But we really don't have the money or the room really now that makes me feel happy. I'm glad to hear that Mr Webb I really am. To tell you the truth that God damn conference got me so depressed Jesus I thought What the hell was I thinking human rights I could be making some real money in Houston defending housewives in divorce court I could be raking it in just shuffling papers and patent law that would be satisfying the drug trade would be downright refreshing after this I swear and I like the pot over here and that hashish I hadn't Bangkok I could get used to that which kind of disturbs me and I see how folks going to help on the stuff you know feels good everything's fine when you're high and it really helps ease the pain when your boss is tearing you a new one. This next rate has got to go off without a hitch Max trade Yeah I've been busy trying to organize our next raid and. Please don't give me that look we're going to work with the police this time I've got a direct line to let everyone know what's going on I'm going to do it by the books whatever the hell that means here and I can't get one goddamn person to return my calls I think the police are laughing behind my back I do jerks I've already got people asking for money and favors what a headache what is this next raid going to happen. I don't know yet rest assured I'll keep you informed this time. Who you'd probably be interested to know that my boss told me as he was tearing me into giving me a chance to prove him wrong that he's not sure I'm cut out for this type of work Hell my father told me point blank as he was dropping me off at the airport. Son Why do you have to go across the goddamn ocean to prove that you want to help the needy and change the world America's got poor people in prostitutes don't we have you been to Las Vegas you can help them can't you you don't have the personality of those folks working for Oxfam Unicef and so forth son They're scrappy they're tough doctors not lawyers they're skinny vegetarians who don't mind a bug bite or 2 while they're Pickens not out of some starving babies nose or shovel in a holes for a job you don't even like your your shoes to get scuffed sun you're uptight got a b. Plus on your report card once and cried for a month you're afraid of failure you hate change your impatient your house looks like a goddamn ad from your mother's Good Housekeeping magazine dirt women and kids make you nervous if I didn't know you better I might think you're a fairy. And ice but he's waiting at the airport right now with a big sign in block letters welcome home son I told you so. He would get along with my dad. Your dad give you a hard time leaving the states was the only thing that ever made our relationship possible Yeah yeah he wanted other things for me like what security sacrifice 40 year mortgage all those things he hated about his life so what you do stayed here. What do you think their fathers wanted for them. I don't know food why didn't you get those babies a chance to go to the states I just don't get it would have been illegal is a little thing called human trafficking you might have found a loophole I mean come on look around you you with all people knows how difficult this country is for little girls for women this is their home still. Why do you think I stayed in Cambodia you like the beer girls sorry. Have you noticed anything since you've been here well you're an incredible place. With Yes yes it's lion's share of damage and corruption and problems and poverty and yet you look get how you look how wonderful the people are you look how people smile and bow and pray and laugh despite so much destruction and trauma despite murder and betrayal by each other you look up people who carried on and they continue to persevered in this country there's a kind of courage and patience and beauty here that I never I don't think I ever felt at home or maybe I didn't take the time to feel that maybe there's a difference. But if you could have given one of them a chance to get out of here to go live with a family in the United States live in a nice house get an education you wouldn't do it you know why not oh Botox breast implants believe me Britney Spears. And everything else it begins with a b. And ends with teenage girls roaming the mall that's ridiculous and selfish Those are choices or expectation choices please at least they have choices come on Sydney it's a safer place for shopping for clothes they don't need to live to grow up and I don't think that that's the answer to the problem. I'm got work to do what's the answer action for all. Oh yeah. You can't smoke give me that give me the cigarette. And. Very hot here. Very dirty. 3 showers. And counting. And a great time here. More boats on a river in a moment if you've missed anything so far this in l a t w dot org or check this station's website and we'd love to hear from you send your comments to radio at any dot org This is l.a. Theatre Works. 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Rodgers directed by Bryan kite I am facilitating secret conversations between the state of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization for your math a Norwegian social scientist and his diplomat wife are determined to try a new tactic to break the longstanding deadlock of the Israeli Palestinian peace process I am here at the 1st No the question is the voice of Shimon Peres and I am here of the personal requests and as the voice of Yasser Arafat's 2 men in a room extend their hands and history begins to change a slow was the 2017 Tony Award winner for this play Israel will not sacrifice its security and you will never have that security the. Peace with us you'll find and hundreds of other audio plays at our website at l a t w dot org. Now l.a. Theatre Works continues with boats on a river by Julie Marie ma it. Where are they I don't know maybe there's no school today maybe. Oh you think there really are there's the tall girl oh look at her hair she's wearing pigtails she's gotten really since blue collar lucky leave oh there's a fat girl she's got candy in her hand I can see it yet like that kind of candy I like it to. Be miss her who. Mama No no I do. Hey look there's a boy with the blue bicycle sometimes she was nice maybe with the candy she was nice look he's leaving and the girls with them too. Maybe that's a sister she's so pretty and tall. I wish I could be a sister he'd let you write on his bicycle if you were his sister and maybe you could tell her parents to buy me a bicycle for my birthday tell them to buy the same color exactly the same just like his no talent asked for a no good for you know with both a blue bicycles riding down the street from school in our clean uniforms riding riding riding how good he. 2 has he had be happy and we get home to our parents. High law their high Father guess what we learned in school today what children what did you learn. Oh but we've got these great bicycles and we got ribbons and we got you so we don't care what we learn as long as we're riding riding riding a living riding riding all around the city as best as we can because we can ride and see the chickens in the market and the fence see close in the stores and we could ride to the river and watch the boats on the river go up then down up then down and the people waving from their boats and we would back Hello people up there in your boats. C people in their boats C. What they're like out there on the water it's warm man Misty Misty yes what are you judging out there nothing nothing when she catching fish we're not here to catch fish we're just sailing by where you going No we don't know we're just floating with the river floating with the breeze floating with the breeze with the river what if it takes you somewhere you don't want to go what. What if the river takes you somewhere you don't want to go no I can't hear you the mist is in my ears what if it takes you away I can't hear you but I sure like your bicycles your lucky to have nice new bicycles but I really think you should have asked for Red I don't want red everyone knows Red is better little girl why fret is the color of the sun and you can always tell where you are from the sun Not if you don't know where you are and you don't know where you're going good bye little girl good bye little boy Our boat is moving faster the river is taking us away into the sun who knows where it will be tomorrow Good bye good luck to you and your happy happy family you know known and we'd watch the boat keep floating down the river and we wouldn't stop waving until we couldn't see any of them or their hands waving back at us their hands are too small to see their hands are gone on the river their boat is gone we don't know where they're going but we brought home to our parents and say hello mother and father we're so glad our house is on land and what's for dinner I hope it's done how he has the happy little now. Everyone's been looking for you we were just playing in a silly game hurry up dinner's ready everyone's waiting go. Aren't you coming go. Watch you get out. How the hell do you get out and look like she got out Jesus why don't you have bars up here you should have bars on the windows no of course you should look what happens you need bars on these windows Well yes you cannot make these little angels live in another cage I won't have it that's ridiculous why they can escape any time they want to so it's better to remind them that they can't yes . It's c e o she must've climbed across the rooftop and down that she had something to eat or she says. Well I'm going to look for her I just can't stand around know what I mean no you can't make her stay here yes we can and I'm calling the police won't do anything what if she wants to go we can't force her she's 13. Sydney. This is the answer to the problem. What's the matter with you people. God bless. The little ones will be crushed Yes. You're. Right. You're. Right. Damn it all. Becomes a river. And I'm poor. Hello may call. I am new and. I came from Vietnam a little girl. I come back to you know old woman. I am asking you to take me with you tonight. Please. Take me tell your river to Vietnam and leave me on the shores of my homeland. That is all I ask of you. I don't care how long it takes. I don't care how you get me there. I don't care who finds me. I don't care and no one knows who I am and I am ugly and awful. I don't care if fish feed on my body and boats don't stop to take me on board. I don't care of all my bones scatter and nothing by my hands reach the edge of. The please let these pingers scrap this soil where I was born one must try so that this girl made and then a new one. To take me home where I belong so like you started can. Start fresh. Say a new. Give me me. Give me new I. Give me a new pair. Bring me back no poor. Bring me back. New body. Healthy and free. Bring me back. As a boy. Action for all has decided to pull out its operations in Cambodia after a brief effort at combat in the child sex trade in Phnom Penh upon receiving dozens of threats from unknown parties which they believe are connected to the Cambodian military and police the organization concluded this country is not an environment conducive to our long term plans no surprises there no I guess not I told your wife she's coming to get you why I'm sick of you. Margaret getting too comfortable sleeping here who says I'm confident this place is not going to fall apart without you I never said it would you have your own children who need you Margaret plan on you're on happy I'm not please look at yourself I think I look fine handsome even Please look I like my job Margaret I like I like that you help me with all these children but if you don't mind I would like to keep my personal life once and for all out of the conversation this is your person knowing Sydney this is your personal life yes Margaret it is. This is my personal life you're right and there have been nights I've wished for nothing more than someone I could go home to someone whom I loved and could devote myself to who I could talk to about myself a warm body to hold. To be held but that is not the choice I made with my family. I wanted another direction to read it I lived with my choices quite completely. But I'm sorry I cannot stand by and watch you destroy what I happen to believe what I know is very important your refuge your adult refuge from here. You need your own refuge Sydney love and kindness we both made choices but this is your personal life too and your killing it no will you marry a sex worker have 2 kids with her and leave her and you want to tell me that your work and personal life are not a bit at odds at the moment yes and I thought you were a smart man a smart man Margaret would have known that it could fall in love with a beautiful exotic woman and marry her and give her 2 beautiful children but he could not give her back her own childhood he couldn't take away the scars and battle all the demons did she ask you to do that I can't battle the demons here at work and then go home and do it there too I can't there's no refuge for me at home anymore for either of us it's just old wounds and shame and sorrow that I can't take away our life to heal her daily Oh so this is about you is it you think you're failing a wife. I know I am please get off your high horse and stop acting like the only thing people want from you when the only thing you have to offer people is fixing them. What makes you so special you have a magic potion a wand some kind of super powers I haven't seen. No one has asked you to pick some Sydney not your wife or these girls that's not what we're here for we are here to give them food and shelter and aid and love and the future. That's all we can do. You think you can mend all the lost and all the scars and you will fail I promise you will fail you can't do it. All the factories in this country couldn't sew these little girls back together make it look like nothing has changed nothing is broken there are too many scars. And there's not enough thread or stitches to go around we can't mend any one back to someone they might have been we can only hold them together as they are. And that's alright. That's wonderful Actually your wife had a horrible time to it and it had nothing to do with you. She got hurt and you want there get over yourself and get her some help so Max me but please go home and be her friend and stop trying to make her better I don't know how to do that why no I don't think it's possible so your giving up. You in that Mr Black have a lot in common. I'm not leaving the country worse you're abandoning someone who loves and need you because you don't know how to be her husband without being the hero. Everybody wants to be a hero. Such a waste of. Time . It's. Nice to see you. Do bicycles are sitting outside your office and the snow. Please give. With my thanks to hell with action for. And my father I will return home with my head held high at least there are 2 girls in your care but please keep an eye on them. If I regards to Sister Margaret . Go home to your wife. Yours Jonathan black. Mr Webb says We're here on the map and that is where we were and there are roads and houses and water here and there maybe n. Is hiding somewhere in between do you think she's waiting for us no why not she knows you're too young to leave and I'm just scared I'm not too young you're a little kid so this is a good place for you and your little kid. Look at all these roads. So many places to go what's wrong with being little nothing I can't help it I know I'm 5. Times it's going home now. Go home to his wife and kids. Excited about that. Really feel like I've seen all that I came to see. And had a grand old time i. Really enjoyed myself. Learned a lot. Saw some sights. Enjoy the treasures of the land. Would love to do it again sometime. I have to get to know people. So for. This is at least get a rich production of boats on a river by Julian reunite directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon if you this to anything so far you can stream this show at l a t w dot org or the station's website coming up next we'll continue our conversation with playwright Julie Marie Myatt. Did you ever feel that the subject matter was overwhelming your ability to transform it into apply. Yeah yeah I mean I got sick the 1st couple drafts of writing the play you know it was you know it's a dark world to live in I wondered a certain points why chose it how much did the staff at the Guthrie the dramaturge ical staff and the directing staff help you in the evolution of those aerial they were huge and I think part of that was just an ongoing dialogue because of course when I was writing the play there was a lot of talk about the subject matter in the news as anything once you start concentrating on it you see it everywhere you know and so there was a constant dialogue about this was in a on line today this was on a paper this read this book Baba blah and they really also I felt help keep me from that big issue place that I didn't want to go you know reminded me. You know you say that things like that so let's play went through I think 7 drafts the character of Tom wasn't added until before the production Tommy explain to our audience who Tom is Tom is signees wife who was in a brothel as a kid and as Vietnamese and from the get go I thought I wanted to keep her offstage I thought that it was better for the audience to imagine her. But then the Guthrie suggested that I bring her on and that scene between Sydney and Tom ended up being my favorite scene in the play and I think that it's because it gets to the point of yes this happens to girls at a certain point and they still look like kids on the outside but what happens to them as women how does it manifest as a woman and Tom allowed me the chance to show that and that scene and it up being heartbreaking in that way saying that she's still she's damaged she's broken yeah yeah and I fought it for us just now it's better if they imagine her but I'm so glad they pushed me to bring her on and have that scene. How did the character of the sex tourist Ted Thompson develop when you were visiting these bars and you were observing people who you thought that that guy might be a sex tourist Did you actually find your focus on one or 2 people and observe them and think That's my Ted Thompson or no I mean I think that male psych stories have a certain. Look sort of speak really and are that they have there is there is there is some kind of iconic I think look what is that look late fifty's early sixty's overweight paced unattractive male if I put that guy at the top of the play everyone would say Oh of course that's what he's going to Cambodia for I wanted to guy that left more questions like Ok this is a young guy who's married with kids what's he going to Cambodia for if you figure it out pretty soon but I didn't want to put the classic Ok this bad dude going to Cambodia I just I just I don't appealing unappealing you know whatever when you're in Southeast Asia you know who I'm talking about talk about your use of video screens in the theater to tell his story the Ted Thompson story and how that fits in your desire to find as I've seen you quoted a piece of theater that gives an audience the same emotional hit that a really amazing still photograph gives mixed media is obviously something you're very interested in well I'm interested in this hybrid how can we do this hybrid experience Ted Thompson allowed for a couple things allowed to bring Cambodia bring. Back to the States for audiences to see and to see what what a terse sees when he or she goes there I felt that it allowed some kind of visceral experience of Cambodia that otherwise wouldn't get to experience and it allowed me to keep some mystery around him we see his face in the very 1st take on the video camera but we don't see him in person until the last scene of the play and that provided a hit. As a theater experience it was really worth it again there was a draft of this play where he wasn't in it and once I brought him into the play psych Oh these are 2 stories going on it allowed me to. Also bring the bigger picture and just like Tom bring her scene in allowed me to show what adulthood like well what happens when a man who's an aid worker marries someone right and damaged and how that relationship plays out and informs his work with these little children right and Ted Thompson allows us to just see the tourist deal with the tourist I don't have to talk about the problem of hers Ok here is this is that the average guy going there in relation to an interview about another play the sex habits of American women you're quoted as follows I want the play to live in that flawed area that there are just things that are never going to be revealed about an individual's relation ship to sex love passion secrets will always remain a powerful force a sacred place the theaters a pretty good place to look at secrets why do you think that it is. I think there is something to just the simple fact that you're sitting next to someone else in a theater audience and watching a live production whatever that experience is you know the person beside me could be crying and I have no idea why they're crying in relationship to what's going on stage but that they may have some secret that that taps into and I think with that power when it works. It's sacred I don't even have words for what it is people say why doing theatre has no money in it right films you know but whatever that witnessing process of theater witnessing something powerful happened together it's ancient It's something that is just extremely powerful and that's worth a lifetime of work. Well Julie It's been a pleasure talking to you thank you so much thank you for having me and for doing my play I've been talking to Julie Marie Myatt author of boats on a river. Boat on a river by Julie Marie My It stars Samantha Al Brega 0 as a Cambodian girl John career as Jonathan black Gregory Itzin as Sydney with Jane Leavy as leader Amy Sara Lim as a Cambodian girl Emily Lu as Tam Webb we may post there is Ted Thompson Jenny Ohara as Sister Margaret Michelle on Ginko as colab Elizabeth pan as yet and kale Woolford as Max recording editing and mixing engineer Mark Holden live sound effects Mark Ratner. L.a. Theatre Works senior radio producer is Ron Lichtman Macko composed our theme music if you live in the Los Angeles area and you'd like to be in the audience for one of our shows visit l a t w dot org to see what we're staging next you can also browse our audio catalogue of over 500 places available as downloads and C.D.'s and discover more about our educational programs for teachers and schools that's l a t w dot org I'm Susan Loewenberg producing director of l.a. Theatre Parks an. Additional support for l.a. 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