Sorry. - ...unpredictable...compelling...funny...feminist theater
"stunning opus" "tour de force" "ahead of its time"
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Leap in the Dark Productions Mission Statement:
Our mission is to illuminate, celebrate, and champion the resilience and resourcefulness of women. Through the transformative power of live theater, we engage audiences in work that enlightens, challenges, and empowers women to embrace their inherent strengths and to thrive by responding to life's challenges with agency and purpose.
Sorry. is multi-disciplinary in form: it weaves together original text, physical movement, and design elements to create a theatrical experience that is both visually stunning and emotionally direct. I have been developing and directing physical theater through Leap in the Dark Productions, for more than two decades. Sorry. received its world premiere in Los Angeles in June 2025, to critical acclaim and an audience response that has been, by any measure, extraordinary. This reception has positioned us to bring Sorry. to NYC where we believe it will find both the audience and the cultural moment it deserves. The work is urgent, theatrical and uncompromising.
The seeds for Sorry. were planted when a false, strategic apology for the purpose of defusing violence was modeled for young women. The unintended lesson for these women - in real time - was that self-erasure is protection. That impulse is what the play interrogates, and refuses.
Offering the audacious and radical premise that two simple words, “I’m sorry.,” undermine a woman’s sense of self, her power, her place in the world, Sorry. dives down the rabbit hole of the female apology, examining the ease and frequency with which women apologize, and the shorthand and underlying code it has become.
Featuring three “women of a certain age” from different centuries and a chorus of Furies, Sorry. proposes a new world order where only a sincere apology can be uttered. Sorry. is funny, bold, ridiculous, shocking, and truthful. All of the men in Sorry. are played by one male actor. In a reversal of the commonplace gratuitous nudity expected of female performers, the men are costumed from the waist up and appear naked below. The men are an intentional device, highlighting the “benign,” everyday ways women continue to be subjugated.
Featuring three “women of a certain age” from different centuries and a chorus of Furies, Sorry. proposes a new world order where only a sincere apology can be uttered. Sorry. is funny, bold, ridiculous, shocking, and truthful. All of the men in Sorry. are played by one male actor. In a reversal of the commonplace gratuitous nudity expected of female performers, the men are costumed from the waist up and appear naked below. The men are an intentional device, highlighting the “benign,” everyday ways women continue to be subjugated.
THEMES: The Female Apology; It’s (still) a Man’s World; Women Undermining Women; Aging and Beauty; Abortion; Breast Cancer.
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