The Closest Thing to a Family Reunion

The setting of Heather Rafferty’s play, The Closest Thing to a Family Reunion, is a small church. Billy and Jay are preparing for the funeral of their father, who used to be an atheist. It is quite clear that Billy and Jay’s mother and father were apart. The parent’s separation…

The power of the word is often much stronger than people would like to believe. It has even been said that “the pen is mightier than the sword.” The reason this is so is that words have the ability to convey meaning at several levels all at once. While two…