Migrations by Cassandra Lewis received honorable mention in the New By Northwest play competition and was also a finalist in The Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project’s new works contest.  An excerpt from the play will be published by Editions Bibliotekos in the literary anthology, Common Boundary.  Cassandra is currently adapting Migrations into a screenplay.

The two-act play is about America’s immigration practices and what it means to love, whether it’s a parent’s love in the face of a life or death decision or an artist’s love in the face of sacrificing personal integrity in order to succeed.

Is it possible to be completely independent, or are we by nature, communal beings, who, at times are called upon to leave our important, isolated worlds to make sacrifices on the behalf of others?

In Migrations two families living next door to each other in San Francisco’s Mission District explore the connection between blood origins and lives created by individual aspirations.  After a young mother refuses to pay “garbage fees” to her landlord she is arrested for living in the U.S. without a green card and faced with the decision of leaving her American-born baby behind with strangers or bringing him with her to prison.