Talking Pictures is Jim Stowell’s Emmy Award winning play based on his travels through Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. This play showcases his Dickensian descriptions, his knack for memorable characters and is an emotional roller coaster. These stories do not make the people of these three countries into distant strangers, completely different than us, but rather recognizes them as neighbors, family and friends, with concerns like our own. When he is done describing the joy of a spontaneous fiesta along the road, the horror of a half-naked child fighting a dog for a piece of gristle and the beauty and the ugliness that exist side by side in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, you’ll feel you know more about those countries and their people’s lives and their resilient human spirit.