The yellow brick road runs through memory, myth, and heartbreak.
In Was, Geoff Ryman reimagines the legacy of The Wizard of Oz through three lives bound by loss and longing. In the plains of Kansas, a girl named Dorothy Gale endures a reality far removed from fantasy. Decades later, Judy Garland faces the weight of fame that made her immortal and destroyed her peace. In the present, a dying actor and his therapist uncover how fiction and truth have always intertwined.
Through these connected lives, Ryman explores the power of imagination to wound and to heal.
Profound and haunting, Was is a moving meditation on art, identity, and the stories that shape who we are.
