Given that football is his identity, that’s soul suicide. Lee quits the team, quits school and just plain quits. But during one Clemson Tigers football practice, his smash-mouth play paralyzes his teammate Brandon. While Leigh still tries to make a difference, every good deed gets punished. She quits her lofty IMF job and becomes a nobody at a junior college. Leigh feels responsible - and guilty as hell. Instead, it underwrites the Hutu’s instruments of death in their genocidal slaughter of the Tutsis. She does, and the IMF sends millions to ease suffering and save lives. In the mid-1990s, the International Money Fund hires her to coordinate aid for Rwanda. Leigh’s determined to do all she can for the Anne Franks of the world. Frank died a month before the camp’s liberation. But Roosevelt (and many others) did nothing. ![]() If President Roosevelt had bombed the train tracks to Bergen-Belsen, Frank might have survived. Anne Frank’s diary has always haunted her - especially after she learned of the diarist’s pointless death. Lee and Leigh both get a head start on reaching their dreams. Off the field, Lee doesn't score many touchdowns. After that, he’s planning a line drive to college football and then the NFL. In high school, the gridiron becomes his happy place. In the brawn department, Lee is a hard-charging, rising football star. Lee (Alexander Stuart) is a good-natured good ol' boy. She hides from real life because it doesn’t always add up. Leigh loves math because it’s eternal, predictable and unchanging. She’s got a high IQ and two doctoral degrees, in economics and statistics. Leigh (Rachel Moulton) is a bit of a control freak with OCD tendencies. So what’s the playwright’s point? I’ll get back to you on that. It’s now FST’s latest Stage III production. ![]() ![]() Etan Frankel’s "Paralyzed" has finally hit the stage at Florida Studio Theatre.
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