The Land Southward

WINNER: BEST NEW PLAY OF 2005 - OC WEEKLY "Darcy Hogan's The Land Southward is a near-perfect work - keen insight, intellectual depth, sly humor and Undeniable Truth ... all of it works beautifully - a play that sticks with you long after your car has pulled out of the theater parking lot - a play that could be - should be - a classic." - Rich Kane, Orange County Weekly. Throughout the nineteen fifties, the United States government conducted above-ground nuclear testing in Nevada. Fallout from these tests rained down on rural Southern Utah. The “downwind” syndrome was born. Moving from the 1940s to present-day, The Land Southward follows the stories of a bright-eyed soldier and his young Mormon bride, an aging downwind survivor and an over-zealous writer from Los Angeles to explore and expose one of the most deadly United States government conspiracies to date.