MAY DAY is a short monologue about the events at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. I was still in high school an hour's drive away when the confrontation occurred, but I never forgot my own confusion upon hearing of the "massacre." Several years later as a Kent State grad student, I avoided the memorial at the site until my final year of school. Like my walks through Gettysburg, the experience remains with me. There are ghosts there, but unlike those who haunt the Pennsylvania battlefield, I believe these ghosts wonder at our disconnect from what took place. We should still be a part of what happened there because many of the same voices struggle to be heard today. Sadly, there will always be those who believe silence equates with peace, but we can never allow the fearful tenets of others to stop us from pursuing what we know, in our hears, is the correct course for mankind.
An abbreviated version of the play appeared in the Eclectic Theatre Company's Got A Minute production in 2008 and the full version was included in Theatre Odyssey's 3 x 3 event in February 2009. Both shows starred Tom Aposporos.
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