The Play
What she reads is the record of a single dangerous passage in human history — the years 2024 to 2026 — staged as it might be seen from the far side of survival.
A drive-through window. A rally field in Butler. The Capitol Rotunda. A rocket caught out of the sky above the Gulf. And a panel stage in Davos, where one man steps out of his own speech to ask what the light is for.
It is also a family play. Beneath the public history runs a private one — a sixth-generation Tejano family, and the promise they carry forward from one generation to the next. A King’s Promise asks the oldest question a civilization can ask: whether it can keep faith with the future.
The form. Five acts and thirty scenes, framed by Mars — a Mars Prologue, a Mars Interlude, and a Mars Epilogue. The present is staged as the past: performed, in 2100, for those who came after.