If All The Sky Were Paper

After bestselling author Andrew Carroll found a riveting,

heartfelt letter written by a distant cousin deployed as a pilot in

World War II, he embarked on a trip to all fi fty states and to

more than thirty countries across the globe, including two active

war zones, in search of more wartime correspondences. The

letters and emails he found-by combat troops, medics, nurses,

and chaplains, as well as family members on the home front and

civilians caught in the crossfi re of battle-came to represent to

Carroll the world's great undiscovered literature. They weren't

just about warfare, he realized, they were about the human

condition itself-love and longing, courage and resilience, grief

and hope, compassion and mercy, and, ultimately, reconciliation.

Carroll's journey, which is at times harrowing but also humorous,

creates the narrative arc of the show. Already performed in high

schools and colleges, community theatres, and major venues,

including the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles and the

Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., across the country, If All

the Sky Were Paper is a play that is both timely and timeless.