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TROUBLE IN KIND
Written by CARIDAD SVICH
A DEVELOPMENTAL PREMIERE
Directed by Josiah Davis
Featuring:
Alexandra Elam, Diva Johnson, Terry Li, Nate Memba, Jojo Nwoko, Mandy Rocha, Ben Saunders, Allie Towbes
Assistant Director: Karly Kuntz
Stage Manager: Tyler Koontz
People by the name of I'm A, I'm a Nother and I'm a Nother Other live in a small town on the edge of the bayou. In the aftermath of a hate crime, they all seek to re-make their lives. It's gonna take a ritual, a visiting deity, and a ghostly encounter at the cross-roads to stir up the waters of progress once again. An incantation play for troubled times inflected with the timbre of tripped-out zydeco blues. This play is part of the AMERICAN PSALM seven-play cycle that began with RED BIKE, which is now in a rolling world premiere around the country.
ATHENA
Written by GRACIE GARDNER
A WORKSHOP READING
Directed by Kate Bergstrom
Featuring:
Allie Towbes, Terry Li, Alex Elam
Assistant Director: Karly Kuntz
Gracie Gardner's inspired, hilarious stories of connection and despair bring edge and poignancy to unseen intimacy. This one in particular reveals MW, a teenage girl asking for a fencing partner to soften rather than provoke her competitive edge. Gardner's stories are diamonds in the rough. In a moment where social media wants us all to look “alright” and leaves us lonelier than ever, and when women's self care, queerness, or care for others is a political act, how can the unusual gesture point to how toxic our usual culture can be?