SCARBERIA consists of ten fables inspired by the real events of neighbors living on the same block in the 1950’s in a working class suburb in North America.

 

Scarberia is as much a state of mind, as it is a ‘Red State’. These visceral, and often violent, tales examine the human spirit and its insistence on twisting and turning and doing what it must to be liberated from, or remain locked within, the patriarchy.  

 

Societal norms inform and infect the behavior of various family members and friends as they go through strange, necessary and transformative journeys.  Neighbors are often unaware of the dark secrets and deviance that lurks behind closed doors, since they are focused on unlocking their own desires, or finding the key to their own psychic survival.

 

The inhabitants of Scarberia all struggle for recognition and relief and their lives have particular poignancy and resonance today, as desperation fuels the cry to return to the fantasy of the past and “Make America great again.”

 

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“Finding darkness in another story is so much less

                              lonely than fearing the darkness is yours alone.”                            

                                                - Leslie Jamison

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                                       (From ‘In The Shadow of a Fairy Tale:

                                        On Becoming a Stepmother, NY Times 4/9/17)