Times Care

I am suggesting that we become more aware of the way we engage with technology and to be mindful of the present. [...] I wanted it to be a surprise for my family and so I sought assistance from the Internet. [...] The inability to touch base with our queer families has also been a great source of stress because the best we could do in any given situation was call and that hasn’t felt like it is enough. [...] As the script of this production is based on a poem, not a play, I would imagine that this break from con- vention allowed to you to approach producing it in an unconventional way. [...] Yes, I was very concerned about how we were going to represent the violence at the heart of play in a way that was not retrauma- tising for either the production team or the audience. [...] I decided to represent that trag- edy with all the theatrical bells and whistles at our disposal so it was a huge, dramatic moment with a big choral soundscape, projections, smoke and loud dec- larations of love. [...] I had been involved in the writing of it as her mentor and then a few years passed and she won the Distell Playwriting Award which allowed it to be staged. [...] Now that you have had a bit of space and time from the show run, do you have any reflections of how you might want to do adapt or edit it in the future? [...] We always spoke about staging it as a site-specific work in a real church, and that is something I would still love to do. [...] But there is something to be said about moving our bodies, and it can keep us from going inward in a way that isn’t always helpful.