Play draws parallels between Colonial times and present day

For someone who's devoted a good chunk of her life to promoting peace, it's a bit surprising that Alice Yeager's first-ever attempt at writing a play begins with a war.

But that becomes a lot more understandable after delving a little deeper and discovering that the play starts off at the end of the Revolutionary War, when the Treaty of Paris was in the process of being ratified.

Ms. Yeager, an Edgewater resident, runs the nonprofit American Healing Arts Alliance, a group of practitioners ranging from...