THE GLASS ESSAY
Based on the Poem by I Anne Carson
Directed and Adapted by I Sawyer Estes
Cast I Kate Brown, Kayli Keppel, Erin O'Connor, Lindsey Sharpless, and Mustapha Slack
Movement Direction + Choreography I Erin Boswell
Scenic Design I Josh Oberlander
Lighting Design I Lindsey Sharpless
Costume Design I Erin O'Connor
Projection Design I Matthew Shively
Sound Design I Chandler Anderson
Videography and Photography I Haley James
“Estes has done a brilliant job of cracking the glassy monument into shards, passing the text from one character to the next, dramatizing and externalizing the narrator’s relentless interiority. “
“Not only does Estes’ The Glass Essay succeed on every technical level, it also grants me a glimpse of something I think I always sensed at play in the poem but never quite understood: the idea that the self is a prism composed of myriad refractions… and / or that each self is one refracted version of a much larger prism - a body of us all.”
“Vernal & Sere specializes in experimental, abstract theater, and… The Glass Essay — which includes elements of music, dance, film, photography and lecture — [is] the culmination of all their efforts.”
