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When We Were Young



Kimberlee Stone





This experimental digital production challenges the viewer’s traditional concepts of what theatre is by delving into the world of video game storytelling as its performance platform. This new genre of storytelling highlights Stone’s script mash-up of a memory play and a whodunit, into an interactive video game that each audience member gets to explore.


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I'm Leaving You My Feet



Alex Dekker





This new play presents and expressionistic world of grief, guilt, catharsis, and eventual acceptance as protagonist Jules struggles to comprehend an event from her past. It invites the audience to sit with these universal experiences - and in doing so, to reflect on how much present emotional context affects memories of painful or tragic events.


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Sea Dragon Dreams



Kimberlee Stone





A digital TVYA movement and puppetry piece about a sea dragon searching for other sea dragons.


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Daughters of the Earth



Complied by Thea Wigglesworth





Celebrants practice the ritual of womanhood through chants, song, and dance.


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Lady From the Sea (abridged)



Text from Ibsen, Dolly Parton, and Rusalka





A highly distilled movement version of Ibsen's classic play. Follow the journey of Ellida and Wangel through their difficult struggle to conform to their partner while also being true to themselves.


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It's the Grass That Suffers



Joseph Governale





Sofie is just one little girl trying to understand what her parents' divorce means amid the growing pains of her own adolescence. She finds allies in her childhood best friend and her imaginary animal friends. Together they embark on a journey of reconciliation, hope, and squirrel catching. "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."


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Melancholy Play



Sarah Ruhl





This play uses different fan languages, and music from a traditional gayageum to accent words and movement. Drawing on traditions centuries old including Pansori, Restoration Comedy, Jing ju, and Kabuki each character has their own way of illustrating both inner and outer narrative through their prop.


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The Country Wife



William Wycherly
Assistant Director
Director Stacy Ray





Set in 1675 this classic restoration comedy is a dressed down version of the bawdy stage that was King Charles' England.


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Poof!



Lynn Nottage





Two women try and cope with their new found extraordinary circumstances. This minimalist black box production employed a movement focused viewpoints rehearsal process.


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Original Brasses Fine Patina



Elaine Ford





A tough conversation in an art gallery between estranged lovers.



Testify: A Choreopoem



Monica Prince





TESTIFY details the struggles of young people of color navigating white spaces in a decade where colored bodies are both invisible and front and center. Based on interviews and personal experiences, the characters of TESTIFY demonstrate the tentative life cycle of identity, attempting to answer the question, "Who am I? And should anyone care?"


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The Forgotten



The Ensemble





Three young men in a post apocalyptic world struggle to find themselves and connect to each other.



The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]



Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield





An outdoor commentary on Shakespeare in the park, which fills summer theatre seasons throughout the US, this production, performed on a set of train tracks, uses real swords, but construction paper for all the rest of the props pulled from giant plastic bins.



The Shape of Things



Neil LaBute





A site specific production of this play, in the art gallery where Evelyn 'the project' eventually displays it.


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Mother Courage and Her Children



Bertolt Brecht (trans. Willett)





A site specific and highly cut version of the classic play. This production used the entire Jeannette Marks Cultural House at Mount Holyoke College to take audiences on Mother Courage's war torn journey.


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Thea Wigglesworth



Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA


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