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Colleen Clinton

Diversion

December 7, 2025

I come from a family of nurses, and apparently so does playwright Scott Organ whose play "Diversion" is set entirely in an ICU nurse’s breakroom. Organ has clearly done his homework, because he’s written an honest, intense, and yet often funny piece centering on a few days in the work life of six nurses under the pressure of a “diversion” investigation. For those unfamiliar with the word in a medical setting, “diversion” is the delicate term given to the illegal practice of diverting drugs away from their intended use, on patients, and instead toward personal use or sale. [more]

The Naturalists

September 12, 2018

Ms. McCarrick’s appealing premise of redemptive romance is in fact subsidiary to the IRA angle as in the program she states that this event is the inspiration for her play. The two threads haven’t been skillfully fused together, resulting in a disjointed experience totaling 13 scenes.  McCarrick packs in a great deal of backstory to her well-drawn characters and her effective dialogue is marvelously Irish in style with plenty of wit, eloquence and reflectiveness. [more]