The stories we tell matter.
The stage is separated into four quadrants. Section 1: A white board. Someone is doing advanced calculations, attempting to balance an equation. Section 2: A couple trying to hang a painting. Hand motions: A little bit higher, a little bit lower,… Read morePlay a Day: It All Comes Out in the Wash
Someone sits on a bench, waiting. Every so often, they check the time. Not an anxious kind of waiting. Excited, but happy to be in the moment, waiting for a good thing to arrive.
The woman from Day 11 returns, bearing the empty fishbowl. She reaches in the large tank and pulls more papers out, filling the bowl again. She exits, off to do more of Something.
A woman sits, legs crossed, eyes closed in the middle of an empty stage. Silence. Silence. The audience gets uncomfortable. Maybe she gets uncomfortable, too. They just ride the wave to the other side.
A woman sits in a ball pit. Behind her, a YouTube video about how to learn to juggle plays on a projection screen.
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… Read morePlay a Day: Come and Go
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… Read morePlay a Day: Night Owls
A woman sits with a notepad, tapping a pencil on the paper. No words come.
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… Read morePlay a Day: Turn Back Time
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… Read morePlay a Day: That’s Better