Playwright takes on Mountain Meadows (Theater Feature: Getting Physical: Two-Headed)
LA Weekly 25Jun99 L2
by Luis Reyes

One of the plays on the schedule for the Fifth Annual Common Ground Festival held at UCLA last weekend, was about two girls growing up Mormon.

Playwright Julie Jensen's "Two Headed" was commissioned by the national theater-support group ASK, and performed at the festival. The play uses the memories of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre as a way of understanding two girls that are growing up Mormon in the 1880s. Rather than condemn those involved in the massacre, the play seeks to understand their motives as a way of understanding the forces that shaped the girls.

Unfortunately, the sparce information about the play doesn't indicate the religious affiliation of the playwright or shed any additional light on the play itself.