The Higher Love

aimee greenberg

Aimee Greenberg is a writer, playwright, director, producer, performer, and teacher.

I am directing a virtual production of Germaine Shames' The Higher Love
Produced by Transformation Theatre, August 2022.

​In The Higher Love, two impressionable actors, Salim and Lucy, land the roles of a lifetime: poet Khalil Gibran and his patron, Mary Haskell. As rehearsals progress, the actors grapple with their unpredictable characters, the meaning of love, and the stage kiss to end all. Offstage, a tragedy strikes the play’s director, casting into doubt Gibran’s and Haskell’s lofty, if unrealized, ideals. From infatuation to heartache to conviction, each character is tested in his/her quest to seize the higher love.

Autorretrato y Musa, painting by Kahlil Gibran, 1911