I am excited to announce that I have received partial funding from The Puffin Foundation for new devised work! The Arachne Project will be a series of short theatre pieces about resistance. The Greek myth of Arachne is one of defiance, knowing ones’ worth, speaking truth to power, the consequences that power inflicts, and the ways we – the defiant ones – adapt to those inflicted consequences and are able to use our newfound context to continue to be…
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for University of Illinois Theatre at Krannert Center. Krannert Facebook Event Based on Mark Haddon’s prizewinning 2003 novel, the play presents a young man’s search for answers—to his favorite math problems, about what it means to be different, to the question of who murdered the neighbor’s dog. A play-within-a-play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time explores the bonds between parent and child, and what it means to accept shortcomings in…
Last year Latrelle Bright (Theatre) and Smitha Vishveshwara (Physics) devised QUANTUM VOYAGES, a new theatre piece about the quantum world that premiered in March of 2018 for our Nobel Laureate Sir Tony Leggett's 80th birthday celebration at the University of Illinois followed by a performance at The Beckman Institute. This year we are headed to the American Physical Society conference in Boston in March of 2019! We learned a lot during our first round with the text and performance and…
Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus Directed by Latrelle Bright The Station Theatre - Urbana, IL October 4 - October 20 Ten Explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. MEN ON BOATS is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. There is a feminist spin in that the 10 male volunteers are played by ethnically diverse women, female-identifying, trans-identifying,…
Potluck & Play success! Thank you to all who came out to read and listen to "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World," by Suzan-Lori Parks. I'd been wanting to experience this play in some way for a long time. Insights into meaning (other than my own) deepened my appreciation for this play. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!