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BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD

BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD is largely a meditation on imprisonment and transformation and the necessity to go away and get lost every now and then. It begins at a bus stop and winds up in a chicken factory, capturing the past century in a day. Three actresses play 12 roles, conjuring a bombastic reality of coffee prisons, waahr, car seats sinking in mud and unmanned umbrellas falling from the sky. The play is teeming with loudness and grit, harsh images and blunt suffering, yet there is an equal dose of goof, absurdity and inwardness simultaneously at work. There is also much singingthe songs never let upand by the end the piece is practically an opera.

Text and Direction: Cara Scarmack / Music Direction: Priscilla Holbrook / Lighting Design: Christopher Weston / Masks and Suits: aricoco / Set Design: Kimie Nishikawa / Performance: Priscilla Holbrook, Katie Proulx, Cassandra Weston / Stage Management: Megan Horan