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Interview: Aleks Merilo on "The Widow of Tom's Hill", A Play about the Flu Pandemic of 1918 by J. C. Wright

The Widow of Tom's Hill, currently onstage at 59E59 Theaters, tells the story of an increasingly dangerous encounter between two people, a young widow and a sailor, set against the worst pandemic in recorded history. Winner of the 2015 Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition, the writer of this play, Aleks Merilo, sat down with StageBuddy to discuss this production and the ideas behind it. When did you first bec…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:18PM on November 2, 2015

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