Daniel Karasik explores the treacherous risks of deep, intimate attachment in his new work, The Crossing Guard, and in his award-winning In Full Light. Complex relationships are formed and broken, discoveries are made, and lives are changed in these two acclaimed plays. Car accidents are troubling enough, but what happens when the driver of the offending vehicle won "t leave you alone? In Full Light examines the unusual relationship between an accident victim "s family and an outsider gradually insinuating himself into their lives. An exploration of obligation, obsession and desire, In Full Light is a riveting look at the complexities of human emotion. Every day after school, seventeen-year-old Timothy waits at the neighbourhood crosswalk where seven years earlier his older sister disappeared. Every day at the crosswalk, he talks and crosses the street with Jim, the elderly crossing guard. It "s a ritual that might go on forever. But one day Timothy arrives and finds Jim absent.
In Jim "s place is a young woman â€a young woman who looks a lot like his sister. The Crossing Guard is a tender meditation on the limits of fidelity.