A Mile in the Dark by Emily Schwend

What happens when a single unanswered question turns a loved one into a stranger?
Jess' stepmother Carol was cheerful, generous, and seemingly at peace — until her unexpected death leaves behind questions no one seems ready, or able, to answer. As Jess tries to understand what happened, the ground beneath her begins to shift. Memory becomes unreliable. Familiar relationships turn strange. Every detail feels charged with meaning, and every answer seems to open into another uncertainty.
Emily Schwend’s A Mile in the Dark is an eerie, intimate drama about grief, suspicion, and the altered state we can enter when loss collides with fear. As Jess begins to question the people around her, the play widens into something even more unsettling: a portrait of how relationships shape us and how the truth can threaten the stories we build in order to feel safe.
*Michigan Premiere*