theatre/film commentary
“Les Revenants”: Resurrection, Murky Waters, and Improbable Love
A critical review of TV show “Les Revenants” examining metaphors for grief and the way reality seeps into fantastical worlds.
National Theatre’s Girl-Power “Jane Eyre” Struggles to Prove Its Relevance
A critical review of the National Theatre’s production of “Jane Eyre” exploring the role of the “madwoman” and the approach of overlaying modern politics on classical texts.
Timeline Theatre’s “Kill Move Paradise” Raises the Dead and Indicts the Living
A critical review of Timeline Theatre’s “Kill Move Paradise” examining the potential for theatre to call audiences to action.
plays
Elektra
A one-woman adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy that explores the feminine grotesque.
Nothing Human Is Alien to Me
A co-devised, interactive play exploring the sensorial experiences of the human body and the way shared senses forge connection between people.
Note: This play was written by Faith Hart, Bobby Halverson, Adelaide Leonard, and Amelia Hernandez. The featured excerpts were written by Faith Hart.
MAINTENANCE
A site-specific walking tour and narrative experience centering the untold stories and labor of sanitation workers. this performance examines the very notion of disposability, spurring consciousness around our responsibility for the waste we create and those who maintain it. audiences are invited to follow the route of GARBAGE MAN–a composite of many real sanitation workers from adapted source texts–and TRASH PROPHETESS, an ethereal oracle who accompanies him along the way. this piece heavily features the manifestos of Mierle Laderman Ukeles.