PLAYGROUND LESSONS, July ‘18
An excerpt from Playground Lessons, 12/08/2017.
Directors: Mackian Bauman & Abi Lieff
Sound Design: Chris Tse
Performers: Mackian Bauman, Abi Lieff, Chris Tse, Ashil Lee, Taylor Turner, Margaret Remboski, Buchanan Jackson Highhouse, Nate Shinners, and Haleyna Kociuk
Dixon Place: Hot! Festival ‘18; Alchemical Theater ‘17
Playground Lessons focuses on risk-taking on stage as both performer and observer explore the common experiences of envy, pain, and shame through a queer lens. As a group of queer artists in a time of severe cultural and political division, we long for self-expression in the face of societal pressures to be ‘normal.’ The show aims to answer the question: how far can we take that expression without alienating the very people we need to lift us up? Is simply being a queer person in 2018 an act of rebellion—and if it is, how can we do that while remaining unified with everyone else around us?
