ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

BEYOND THE WOUND IS A PORTAL

Beyond the Wound is a Portal is an immersive musical ritual that invites you to slow down and rest as we, the first line of curse breakers and spacewalkers, seed the magic and medicine of our imagination together. Singing bravely of collective joy over the tyranny of silence, we invoke our imagination as the salve for the wounded parts of ourselves and our community.

Guided by the 8 phases of the moon, this playful, dream-logic ritual weaves in original song and stories unearthing the makers’ collective experiences around the aching monstrosity of intergenerational family inheritance, the feelings of loss that manifest as disembodiment and distortion at this very moment, memory as both the site of wounds and of dreams, and the cyclical nature of our healing and becoming.

You are who you are.

And you are who you’ve been.

And you are who you’ll be.

And we invite all of this in.

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Haruna LeeHARUNA LEE (TAPS MOHR VISITING ARTIST 20-21) is a Taiwanese-Japanese-American theater maker whose artistic process is rooted in a liberation-based healing practice. Their plays are often portals into personal and collective stories navigating transcultural experiences and memories, as well as conflicts that arise when grappling with the simultaneity, contradictions and pluralities of those lived experiences. Through different artistic and teaching modalities, they promote arts activism and emergent strategies for the theater through process-based collaborations that directly challenge coloniality and legacies of power. Between 2010-2019, Lee helmed the work of their company harunalee, an ensemble of theater makers and designers who created experimental plays and performances written and directed by Lee. With an eye for handmade and craft objects, they often created epic visual landscapes and immersive environments together. Lee’s standalone play Suicide Forest (Bushwick Starr & Ma-Yi Theater Company) was published by 53rd State Press and hailed by the New York Times as “Vivid, haunted, heart-stingingly tender and explicitly personal…A wild ride of a production” (NYT Critic’s Pick) and appeared on New York Magazine/Vulture’s top 10 shows of 2019. Other plays include plural (love) (New Georges, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), and Memory Retrograde (The Public’s Under the Radar Festival Incoming! Series, Ars Nova Makers Lab, Brooklyn Arts Exchange). Lee is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, A Map Fund grant, Lotos Foundation Prize for Directing, a New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship, and has received support from the Mental Insight Foundation, FCA, NYSCA, and the NEA. As a performer, they’ve worked with Aya Ogawa, Minor Theater, The Drunkard’s Wife, Taylor Mac, Mac Wellman, Rachel Chavkin, César Alvarez, Kate Benson & Lee Sunday Evans, and Anohni- among many others. They were a member of the 2019 artEquity cohort, a national facilitation training for artists and activists. Lee has taught playwriting and performance at the Experimental Theater Wing and Playwrights Horizons at NYU, PACE, CUNY, and Abrons Arts Center. They received their MFA from Brooklyn College for Playwriting, and a BFA from NYU Tisch Experimental Theater Wing. harunalee.com

 

PERFORMANCE DATES + TIMES

November 12-14, 2020
7:00pm PT

 

 

RUNNING TIME

This performance runs approximately 90 minutes without intermission.

 

ADMISSION

Admission to this digital, live performance is free. In lieu of ticket charges, the student cast encourages donations to the charities they have curated below:

The Loveland Foundation

National Birth Equity Collaborative

The Okra Project

Special Olympics

RAINN

 

 

Promotional artwork by Carlo Maghirang

 

A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES

TAPS’s livestream series TABLEWORK features lively roundtable discussions broadcast on social media. Members of production creative teams and casts will talk through their processes, goals, and challenges, sharing a window into the immense scholarly and creative efforts that serve as the foundation of TAPS performances.