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This thesis examines playwright Deb Margolin’s (2007) play O Yes I Will (I will remember the spirit and texture of this conversation) and her radical feminist approach of care in contrast to the chance-based operations utilized by surrealists John Cage, Andre Breton and Joseph Cornell. Ten disparate individuals perform selected dialogue through their experiential engagement with Margolin’s play via the application Zoom. Zoom's meta format is compared to surrealist interventions against a dearth of physical human interaction across the SARS-CoV-2's global backdrop of disenfranchisement. Margolin’s work reconsiders chance-based operations, reformulating this methodology into change-based practice, demonstrating how theatrical engagement with a one-woman show through this divergent group of people encourages healing and compassion.M.A