Like a shard of glass to the spine, Gatchalian's "Broken" is razor sharp, digging deep to scrape the nerve. Emotional dysfunction spreads like a plague through a namelessly familiar urban sprawl. In its wake, nothing survives unbroken: hearts, families, rhythms, dreams. At the epicentre of the maelstrom is a young man named Adrian, godlike and hurting, struggling to discern the sickness from the cure. New Bard Press is excited to publish this script as an artifact of Broken's world premiere at Vancouver's Firehall Arts Centre, March 2006.
Like a shard of glass to the spine, Gatchalian's "Broken" is razor sharp, digging deep to scrape the nerve. Emotional dysfunction spreads like a plagu...
