FOLDA 2019

Join a group of gamer/performers between the ages of 10 and 46 as they enact different mother-son narratives, live, in front of an audience. As they travel through digital terrains telling tales from the Beowulf Saga, Bambi, and The Terminator, personal stories of the powerful bond between mothers and sons emerge and weave themselves into the performance. Inspired by the real-life relationship between Theatre Replacement’s Maiko Yamamoto and her 11-year old son and his obsession with Minecraft, MINE is an intergenerational performance that both interrogates and recognizes the role technology plays in our modern parent-child relationships.

Pathetic Fallacy examines our changing relationship to weather. It circles around climate change and lands on one person. Reflection outweighs didacticism, with wit and curiosity. Urgently drawing together landscape painting, small talk, meteorological science and pathetic fallacy—the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things like the weather—this piece questions the value of emotion […]

Join a group of gamer/performers between the ages of 10 and 46 as they enact different mother-son narratives, live, in front of an audience. As they travel through digital terrains telling tales from the Beowulf Saga, Bambi, and The Terminator, personal stories of the powerful bond between mothers and sons emerge and weave themselves into the performance. Inspired by the real-life relationship between Theatre Replacement’s Maiko Yamamoto and her 11-year old son and his obsession with Minecraft, MINE is an intergenerational performance that both interrogates and recognizes the role technology plays in our modern parent-child relationships.