"Mother Hicks" takes place during 1935 during the heart of the Depression in Southern Illinois. Themes of job-loss, poverty, homelessness, longing and loss as well as references to the Federal Writers Project are found in this play.
This play is about three outsiders – an orphan girl known only as Girl; a deaf girl, eloquent in the language of her silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles the journeys of these three to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time.
-----Betty Walpert
