SPLIT BILL (Pistachio): Who the Water Carries + The Slate
Who the Water Carries
On the delta’s floodwaters is a baby who will one day eat an Empire, heralded by her family turned bird by a bomb. Blue-green and monstrous and flush, the Invitation Arts Collective presents a staged reading of Grace Zofia Alberti’s Who the Water Carries, with puppets by Elliot Allen and Rhys Luke. May it be a hymn dedicated to every single family displaced by and lost to global imperialism.
PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR: Grace Zofia Alberti
PRODUCER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Eliana Coe
STAGE MANAGER: Julia Freitas-Gordon
PUPPETS: Elliot Allen, Rhys Luke
POSTER: Jul LeCours
OUTREACH MANAGER: Ella Danyluk
COMPANY: Paige Bakke, Essence Blake, Benoit Elias-Roberge, Georgia Evans, Noma Mirny, Diana Rendon
Content warning: verbal descriptions of gunfire, bombing, stoning, arson, violence by and to birds, and somewhat metaphoric cannibalism
The Slate
This could totally be the last play in the world. Or at least it feels like it. Ivonne Murphy and Ivonne Pompano (“the Ivonnes”; yes, like “the Daniels”) have decided to document their production process from stem to stern, anticipating that their upcoming play will not only be their magnum opus, but that it will have the power to pull their world out of its current apocalypse With The Power Of Theatre. Actors from far and wide have come to audition for the Ivonnes, and only time will tell if the mountains they will move are those that the Ivonnes had in mind. It all starts with the slate.
Eliana Coe’s The Slate plays in absurdity, mundanity, and the tension that manifests in the in-between. How do artists operate in a world that is constantly in crisis? Should the last play in the world even be made at all if the world has come to that point? Can artists be people too? Can they really? Prove it.
Playwright, Director, Producer | Eliana Coe
SM | Julia Freitas-Gordon
Asst. SM | Grace Zofia Alberti
Outreach Manager | Ella Danyluk
Ivonne Murphy | Georgia Evans
Ivonne Pompano | Diana Rendon
Rory | Noma Mirny
Esme | Sara Gordon
Stage Directions | Essence Blake
Stage Directions | Joel Morel
Stage Directions | Paige Bakke
Stage Directions / Bartender | Benoit Elias-Roberge
Content warning: profanity, vulgarity, mental health issues, sex, existential crises