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Parhelion Stages Small Town Life, and Racial Tensions by HowlRound

By Chris Garza. According to Abbey Swafford, in the playwright's notes, the seed of "Parhelion" came from a day ten years ago when Swafford saw what she thought was a sundog after she climbed a hill. Swafford interpreted this luminous phenomenon as the figurative light at the end of the tunnel; a victory over troubled times. Her hopes were dashed upon the realization that the sundog, or parhelion, was actually a fals…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:55PM on December 31, 2013

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