Who Lives?
- 1963. For Gabriel and others,
it’s dialysis or death – but there aren’t enough machines.
- Now an anonymous citizens committee must decide…
Who Lives?
This is a true story:
In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle debated which kidney disease victims to choose for an experiment: something called kidney dialysis. If the experiment worked, a small number of people would live instead of surely die from kidney failure. But who among the selection pool lives? How will the committee choose? Playwright Christopher Meeks centers the action on one person, attorney Gabriel Hornstein, who desperately needs what the committee offers.
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Meeks takes this factual scenario and transforms it into a thought-provoking drama, which relates a timely story about both ethics and morals....
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LA Weekly review of the original production
Read Christopher Meeks' personal story about why he wrote Who Lives?
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