The Mother of God Visits Hell (A Play in Iambic Pentameter)

*Winner of the Helen-Jean Play Contest 'Literary Creativity' Award in 2015; Semi-Finalist in the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship in 2014; and Official Selection of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK, 2014.The Mother of God Visits Hell is a full-length poetic play about the Virgin Mary. It is written in rhyming iambic pentameter, and based on a poem described in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in which the Virgin Mary travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. While there, she becomes so moved by their plight that she pleads with God to forgive them. When he refuses, a war erupts between Heaven and Hell, as the two forces battle over good and evil.