Listen to an Audio Performance of Our New Play: Big Work
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Big Work weaves together verbatim excerpts of interviews with 17 strangers into a modern day meditation on the American Dream and how we define success and ourselves in the 21st century. Portraits of these real people reveal the rich inner lives we all lead, and beckon us to explore what questions we should be asking in order to truly know one another.
The original cast audio performance of Big Work is available on iTunes (under Audiobooks), Audible, and Amazon.com.
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Visitors Featured on NPR
Kate Marple chatted with Beth Adams at WXXI -- her hometown NPR station in Rochester, New York -- about why Americans seem fixated on their jobs, the need so many people feel to connect in new ways, and about transforming Big Work into an audio drama.
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Big Work on "You Are Here"
Melissa Bergstrom joined WERS 88.9's Morgan Sung in the studio for an in-depth interview about Big Work. She traced the personal origins of the piece, pondered the message of the American Dream, and chronicled the play's journey from stage to audio drama.
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We Write and Tell True Stories to Foster Connection
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Our mission is to foster understanding, empathy, and human connection through theatre that explores uncommon human experiences, and to tell entertaining, compelling true stories. We create and perform new theatre pieces based on research and interviews with real people. Sometimes we perform our plays live in traditional theatres or untraditional community spaces. Other times we share our shows as audio dramas, updating the radio play genre for the podcasting era, and allowing more people to experience these stories. Throughout the year, we can be found in various stages of creating new theatrical work: researching, interviewing, writing, and workshopping new pieces.
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