SPRING AGAIN, OR is a new hour-long performance of four absurdist short plays that explore themes of isolation and environmental cataclysm. A throughline is the flower, which evolves from an extant natural phenomena to one that is extinct by the final play.
The series comprises CASTRATO (1m), GLASS HALF-FULL (1m, 1w), SHE’S IN PARTIES (2w, 3m), and SPRING (1m). The protagonists include a misanthropic misogynist with a phobia for flowers; a woman who is left naked and thirsty by her lover; a girl who is so deprived of an understanding of time that she has forgotten her own birthday; and a terminally lonely man who subsists on a diet of burnt toast.
SPRING AGAIN OR reveals the obvious link between environmental degradation and self-destruction. But in addition to demonstrating the frightening existential vacuity of “life-after-nature,” it proposes a simple salve: to listen, to smell, and to see.
Written by Aida Garrido.
Directed by Alexandru Mihail.
Scene design by Kate Campbell.
Sound design by Chad Raines.