Bootleg Radio

Bootleg Radio was devised and workshopped with the ensemble in summer 2017, and was fully produced as part of Available Light Theatre’s season that autumn. The piece is built of text from the company, their friends and family, and the writers they admire. It is a contemplative, questioning production punctuated with stylized movement and original music. A Richard Sanford of the Columbus Underground described it as:

“...one of the most invigorating things of any stripe I’ve seen on a stage all year.”

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The design sought to keep the space open and the audience close for this intimate experience. The floor was lined with cardboard and the room bookended with stacks of boxes and suitcases. I designed and built four expanding sails made of landscape fleece that the actors unfurled mid-way through the production. The sails separated the room in to four sections for even more intimate confessional pieces before they were pulled back to reopen the room for the final movement pieces.