Flesh-Light Stories is the world premiere of four breathtaking stories of human reality. Written by Roderick Nash the work reviews to an audience’s eyes the realities about global terrorism and its nightmarish effects on individuals.

Open Source Theater will present four short plays that are based on factual happenings. They portray civilians going through wars, guerrilla attacks and power struggles. Real life horrors that our eyes don't see due to our removal from their reality.

"The Boulevards of Brazzaville" is set in The Republic of Congo. The play explores the relationship of Berenice, the wife of a political exile of the 1997 coup, and her once lover, Colonel Rene Milongo, a military commander, who is on the hunt for her husband.

"Machu-Picchu in the Night" is the play where Mr. Nash touches on the dynamics of two disparate different realities, contrasting both, economically and culturally. Rafael, once forced to be Senderista, hides from the "Shining Path". Father Brady, a Jesuit priest, hypnotized by the spiritual energy of Machu-Picchu, tries to hide from his own dark night of the soul. Their paths cross as they share in search for God.

"The Congo Chronicles" happens eleven years after the coup in Brazzaville. Emile Boyama returns to Africa in search of his lost manuscript. In these chronicles, he describes the horror and inhumane treatment Congolese people were exposed to during the coup. He has trusted an influential professor, François, to write the preface to his book- but the professor has disappeared with the manuscript. Now they finally encounter each other on the opposite side of the Congo River in Kinshasa- DR Congo.

Lastly, "A Crown in Samarra" takes place at the Archaeological Museum of Samarra during the Iraq war. Serga, curator the museum, finds herself at the mercy of Coffman, an American sergeant on "unofficial military business". This piece explores subjects such as looting of art pieces and valuable historical artifacts, as well as the vulnerability civilians are exposed to. 

As the play evolves, political struggle ensues where no one wins the battle. While demographically and culturally separated these plays carry within them a thread of mercilessness fueled by immense power struggles. Man's necessity for supremacy and control over ordinary citizens is closer to us than ever before. By being exposed to these places, where flesh is just tissue without feelings, we are made to realize that our reality to their world is no further than our front door.