American dreaming
Nora Douglass decided to get personal when she started working on her master's thesis in playwriting at the University of Washington. Rather than w...
Nora Douglass decided to get personal when she started working on her master's thesis in playwriting at the University of Washington. Rather than writing a fictional story, she drew inspiration for her play, Edmonds Stories, from her family's history of immigrating to the United States from Sweden in the early 1890s. 'The script is loosely based on my great-grandparents' experience moving to Minnesota, then Seattle and finally Edmonds, Washington, sometime around 1892,' Douglass says. 'My great-grandmother had five daughters, four of whom worshipped her and one of whom left town to live in Canada.