The Hitman: and Other Short Plays

In this delightful, sometimes poignant, sometimes hysterically funny collection of plays, Henry Holden demonstrates that having a disability does not diminish the opportunity for a fully lived life. In The Hitman, a fed-up actor takes his revenge on a short-sighted casting director and from there we begin to move through Mr. Holden’s world, a world that is astonishingly familiar. A father lives through his son, a mother struggles with her son falling for a shiksha, a rising politician fights to overcome his past. These aren’t stories of people with disabilities, they are stories of people. People we all know and relate to. Mr. Holden’s plays are about ordinary people just trying to get through this human experience and the fact that many of these characters happen to have disabilities is almost inconsequential. The despairs, the absurdities, the triumphs of every human life are here in these plays