Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays wealthy widow Mary Questman adopts

wealthy widow Mary Questman adopts an exotic stray cat

she goes to a party with her best friend--where she meets Eilam Roads

very wrong

gender-bending images

Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances

Whale Aria American Dramas & Plays wealthy widow Mary Questman adopts"For seasons I was faceless trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star map on my tongue," recounts Rajiv Mohabir's speaker in "Boy with Baleen for Teeth." As formally visionary and acoustically attuned as ever, Mohabir has composed an interspecies opera in Whale Aria. This collection examines the humpback whale as a zoomorphic analog of the queer, brown, migratory speaker breaching these pages; just as a person navigates postcolonial queerness