With unsettling humor, physical inventiveness, and an attempt to find transcendence in even the smallest moments, the play imagines a separate place where sports drills, ritualistic recreation, and an ongoing merging of a personal past, present, and future feels disturbingly necessary and like a kind of home. Writer/director Tina Satter uses her poetically tinged approach to the language and feelings of sports as a textual layer to create a world out on the Plains where two young women re-make family and friendship. Highly regarded experimental performers Pete Simpson, Jess Barbagallo, and Emily Davis are supported with an original score by composer Chris Giarmo.
Written and Directed by Tina Satter
Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Emily Davis, Pete Simpson
Touring Cast: Jess Barbagallo, Emily Davis, Mark Jaynes
Music Composition and Sound Design: Chris Giarmo
Lighting Design: Zack Tinkelman
Set Design: Andreea Mincic
Production History
October 2013: Performances at Palco do Grando Auditorio, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
January 6-10, 2012: Performances at Incubator Arts Project, New York (Preview - Other Forces Festival)
“an unexpected companion piece and darker heartbeat to the critically acclaimed In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL. Using her poetically tinged approach to the language and feelings of sports as a textual layer, Tina creates an even more abstracted, but potent world to consider teammates, family, and belief in something more.”
– Broadwayworld.com
Supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Art.