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The play tells the story of Katurian (James R. Morris GSAS ’10), a young writer who is taken into police custody because a string of recent murders emulate the plots of his gruesomely violent children’s stories. When his mentally retarded twin sister, Michal (Isabel...
Skinny and animated, with a mop of brown curls, Morris is equal parts charming and helpless, for he immediately draws the audience in with his panicked anxiety and confusion about his sudden imprisonment. It seems impossible that such a charismatic and haphazard individual could pen horrific tales of child murder...
3. FM: You played football for Robert Morris University and Virginia State. What caused you to switch your focus from athletics to music, or had you always loved both?
“[The audience] should probably expect it to be disturbing in places, possibly slightly uncomfortable. It’s not a happy play,” Morris says. “It’s about someone being interrogated in a dictatorship and their life depending upon answers...
“It’s an intense play,” says visiting scholar James R. Morris, who plays the unfortunate writer and protagonist, Katurian. “But it’s also very funny, and places brilliant moments of dark comedy alongside a real range of...