AN UNTITLED RIFF ON THREE SISTERS
Irina, Masha, and Olga plan to make a grand return to Moscow soon. Until then, they have always lived in their father’s house. But now it has become their brother’s house. They find refuge from the men that inhabit their world in the upstairs bedroom, sharing time and sharing secrets and sharing themselves in a way they can’t in the rest of the house. In dialogue with Chekov’s classic play.
Music by Julia Meinwald.
CHOREOMANIA
One hot day in July 1518, Frau Troffea walked out onto the streets in Strasbourg and began to dance uncontrollably. As crowds gathered around her, others were pulled into her involuntary dance, until the streets were filled with hundreds of plagued dancers, and two sisters living in the city are drawn into the dancers’ world. At a time of persistent social anxiety and ceaseless tension, the people of Strasbourg spent the summer facing the unknowable until it faded away.
Music by Julia Meinwald.
THE INVENTOR’S DAUGHTER
Susan’s father has been an amateur inventor all her life, and has named a failed invention after each of her older sisters. When her namesake invention becomes an unexpected best-seller, she must contend with an identity she never chose to become the person she was meant to be.
(A play!)
THE SLOTTED SPOON
Three women are called back for the role of Jack’s Mother in their local community theater’s production of Into the Woods. One is the longtime leading lady who is beginning to age out of her usual roles, another is new to town and way too young, and the other just wants to play The Baker’s Wife already. A meditation on the boxes in which women are allowed to exist in musical theater.
(A play!)
LEFT
After a natural disaster devastated her hometown, Deni stayed behind. She has spent the months since the disaster finding and rescuing local dogs abandoned by their owners and trying to piece together her grandmother’s synagogue from the bits she remembers, all while avoiding the others who stayed. When the owner of one of her rescue dogs comes back to claim him, she has to confront what it means to have been left behind.
Music by Julia Meinwald.