A Little Closer
By Michael Ross Albert
Directed/ Dramaturged by Diana Bentley
Starring Breanna Dillon, David Reale, Cameron Laurie and Annie Lujan.
The carefully structured life of a professional cuddler begins to unravel as the strangers he welcomes into his home force him to confront his darkest secrets
AUDIENCE QUESTION: What does it mean to be a good person? We’ll ask the audience to lean into the moral grey ground with us and share their thoughts on character, morality and question the limits of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Discount Dave and The Fix
By Rebecca Auerbach
Starring Rebecca Auerbach
Directed / Dramaturged by Aviva Armour-Ostroff
When a rockstar crashes the backstage party at a Shakespeare Festival, a thrill-seeking young actor is set on a path of self-reckoning. A provocative blend of truth and fiction, Discount Dave and The Fix is a suspenseful, hilarious and harrowing examination of our obsession with celebrity, how addiction can bury our wounds, and what it takes to heal.
AUDIENCE QUESTION: How is a one woman show shaped by the audience experience and interaction? Rebecca and Aviva will investigate how the audience feedback shapes Rebecca’s performance and writing.
Reproduktion
By Amy Rutherford
Starring Katherine Gauthier, Maggie Huculak,
Rick Roberts and Tyrone Savage
Directed / Dramaturged by Jonathon Young
Flora, desperate to become pregnant, travels to her homeland of Sweden to undergo an alternative fertility treatment that is “guaranteed to reproduce.” As a result of the procedure, a surprising and dangerous transformation occurs, throwing everything she thought she knew about herself and the world into question. By turns funny and moving, Reproduktion examines the ancient imperative to procreate and how to find meaning in our lives when that primal call goes unanswered.
Award-winning playwright Amy Rutherford and director Jonathon Young join forces to create an unforgettable evening in which sounds are recorded and mixed live, reproducing the play's soundscore in real time each night.
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE: The sound experience will shift and grow nightly as the lab progresses and the creative team makes changes based on audience experience and feedback.
