The Play
Koroneiki - by Chana Wise
KORONEIKI is an intimate psychological drama told through the increasingly unreliable narration of John Dowell, who recounts his long friendship with another couple he and his wife meet at a luxury wellness resort in Sedona. What begins as shared values, easy intimacy, and the comfort of being “good people” gradually fractures as memory, desire, and denial reshape the story being told.
Moving fluidly between Sedona and a New York penthouse, the play traces how care becomes control, how virtue becomes performance, and how moral certainty can obscure responsibility. Loosely inspired by Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Koroneiki transforms emotional restraint into something more fragmented and unsettling, inviting audiences to question not only what happened — but who needs the story to be told this way.
- Form: Full-length play in one act
- Cast: 6 actors (with doubling)
- Settings: Sedona wellness resort; New York City penthouse
- Status: Developed through staged readings
- playwright information: www.chanawiseproductions.com