"Wild Blessings" illumined

Wild Blessings - An Overview: 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Wild Blessings is true to its title as being a celebration or tribute to Berry. The play is not a biography unless poetry itself can be considered a kind of autobiographical road map. In Berry’s words taken from the play Wild Blessings contains “the stories of lives, knit together throughout history.” As a play with music, the instrumentation of Wild Blessings is simple and clean, supporting the power of Berry’s poetry. The play itself captures both the drama and humor of Berry’s poetry and illuminates his metaphor. READ MORE ...