Description

In the early ’90s in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked 800 miles across Africa until making it to refugee camps in Kenya, where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for 10 years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these lost boys in cities across America. Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods tells the story of Christine, a recently divorced East Ender from Pittsburgh, who meets Gabriel, a former lost boy working in the produce section of Whole Foods. Soon Gabriel’s world becomes enmeshed with hers and daughter Alex-leading to a remarkable journey of awareness, struggle and hopefulness. The play asks the question: what happens when we open up our lives to help another human being-leaving us to wonder about the effect of one soul upon another. Area staging. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.