A woman sits in a ball pit. Behind her, a YouTube video about how to learn to juggle plays on a projection screen.
Play a Day: Come and Go
The woman from Day 15 puts down her notepad and pencil to go for a walk around the auditorium to clear her head. Halfway back to the stage, she gets an idea. She runs back to the stage to write it down, but by the time she gets there, it is gone again.
LGBTQ Youth and SanghaLink
According to the Trevor Project, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for young people ages 10-24, and LGBTQ youth are four times as likely to attempt suicide as their straight peers. High school is a difficult time for a lot of young people, and LGBTQ youth especially. It can be easy to feel […]
Play a Day: Night Owls
A crescent moon is projected on the back wall of the stage. The sounds of night. Cicadas, owls hooting, a slight breeze. Spotlight up on a woman at her desk, typing on a laptop. Lights down. Spotlight up on a grocery clerk restocking the shelves. Lights down. Lights up on a mother rocking an infant […]
Play a Day: Out of Reach
A woman sits with a notepad, tapping a pencil on the paper. No words come.
Play a Day: Turn Back Time
Someone sits, staring at a clock. They stand, open the clock face, and manually turn back the hands with a finger. Someone else looks up from a newspaper. “I don’t think it works that way.” The first person sighs. The second returns to reading.
Play a Day: That’s Better
Stage right. A giant heap of items – miscellaneous things: papers, clothes, notepads, books, stuffed animals, picture frames. A woman enters stage left. One by one, she takes items out of the heap and moves them stage left, arranging them in a pleasing manner. When she’s finished, the woman stands back to view her handiwork, […]
play a day: same old
someone sitting beside a large rock at the base of a hill smoking a cigarette
Play a Day: Priorities
A bedroom. Stage left, a desk and chair. A large red neon sign blinks: “Art” Stage right, a bed. A large blue neon sign blinks: “Sleep” A woman stands center stage, looking from one side to the other. Sheepishly, she walks stage right, collapsing on the bed.
Play a Day: Something > Nothing
A giant fish tank, the like of which you would see in an aquarium. It is filled with small bits of paper with tasks written on them. It bears a label reading “Everything.” A smaller fish bowl, in which a single goldfish or beta might live. It is also filled with small bits of paper with […]