"Women of Lockerbie," the play

Dakota Wesleyan’s production of “Women of Lockerbie” is set for next week.
 
The small-ensemble play will be performed at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 25-27, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28, in the DWU-Equitem Theatre-in-the-Round within Hughes Hall on Dakota Wesleyan’s campus. Tickets are $7 general admission.
 
The production will be directed by DWU senior Madi Miller, a theatre major from Mitchell.
 
The play’s synopsis is: A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. “The Women of Lockerbie” is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional. Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate.