The Recollection of Green Rain

In the twelfth century, in England, two mysterious green children appeared inexplicably in Woolpit, Suffolk. They spoke an unknown language and at first would only eat broad beans. The boy died soon after being baptized, but the girl was taken in by a local family and eventually married. She insisted she was from St Martin’s Land, a subterranean world inhabited entirely by green people and sheeplike animals. As her diet expanded, she gradually lost her green color, was considered a bit wanton in character, and eventually married. In this unusual two character play, Walter Map, the famous Welsh collector of anecdotes, trivia, folklore and history and the first person to record stories of English vampires, comes to Woolpit to interview the green girl and try to make sense of her story. What follows is an increasingly high stakes struggle between Map and the girl about who gets to define realty. Map finds the girl completely disarming and very attractive, and she is both drawn to him and suspicious of his motives. Is the Green World a story she’s made up, or does she believe it? And can she get him to believe it? Will he believe if she seduces him? Or is each person we love a portal to another dimension?