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The Seat­tle Weekly ran a great inter­view with my pal Sonya Schnei­der about The Thin Place, the new play she’s writ­ing for the Inti­man The­ater here in Seat­tle. The play will open in May and will star Gbenga Akin­nagbe, who played Chris Part­low on The Wire. Sonya is supremely tal­ented, and we’re all thrilled to see her get the break she deserves.

Here’s how the Weekly describes the play:

Every era has to rein­vent the project of “spir­i­tu­al­ity” for itself. If you abol­ish the sym­bols, then you tear down the walls of your own house. There is, then, a ques­tion as to whether your god is really God.

From Marketplace:

Right now the top 20 per­cent of the people have about 85 per­cent of the wealth. People think that they only own 68 per­cent of the wealth, so people under­es­ti­mate the inequity, but if you ask them what’s kind of an ideal world in the Rawls kind of sense that you would actu­ally want to par­tic­i­pate in, they say 33 percent.