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Synopsis
This is a story based on the life of Edith Warner, who lived at Otowi Crossing in New Mexico
from 1928 to 1951. The tea room of Edith’s character, Helen Chalmers, at the old railway station
serves as a metaphorical bridge between the ancient Pueblo culture and the U.S. government
installation at Los Alamos where the atom bomb is being developed.
In the course of the parable like story describing the long lasting process of Helen’s passing
away, Helen becomes a person of insight into the unity and harmony of all life as those first
atomic scientists take from her hope that people of intelligence and goodwill understand their
sense of crisis.
The Woman at Otowi Crossing
15.06.1995 Opera Theatre of St. Louis, © Ken Howard
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