Experiments: Trying for Hedda – Feb 24

24 February, 2025

The Club
74A East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets:
FREE

By Harris Singer

ABOUT

The Experiments play reading series has provided a forum for talented playwrights and theatre makers to continue their creative process. The Monday night readings give emerging artists the opportunity to hear their developing works read by professional actors and receive valuable audience feedback. Experiments remains an artist driven service organized around shifting themes to allow a larger, under-served theater community to experience a greater diversity of programming.

Trying for Hedda is loosely based on Hedda Gabler. Loosely as in, imagine if you were in a room where Hedda Gabbler had once been. Perhaps years ago. Or perhaps in the way a creature who is not constrained to the laws of time has been in a room. And you smell her perfume. And it makes you choke. It almost kills you. And you are so close to entering the valley of the dead, but then Hedda, from the heavens, gives you her dress, and asks you to be the next Hedda. To usurp her. That is Trying for Hedda.

CREDITS

Hedda: Michela Murray
Woman: Sam Flynn
Harris: Harris
Guy: Dani Foster
Tesman: Witt Tarantino

Harris Singer (He/Him/His) is a Georgia born and New York City based playwright, director, performer, and illustrator. He Co-founded and is the artistic director of The Fool Volk (a performance collective that combines classical rigor with experimental play and believes silliness goes hand in hand with change.). He graduated from New York University with a BFA in theatre: focusing on Shakespeare and playwriting. His work embodies a queer absurdist lens, probes artistic forms/structures, mixes mediums (puppetry, dynamic movement, horror, tattoo, performance art, food, etc), and most importantly bursts with whimsy. Harris argues for a theater that utilizes the medium to its fullest: taking advantage of audience participation, scent, the body, tasks, time, etc. Notable playwriting: Take Me To Dollywood (The Fool Volk at St. Lydia’s Church) Charles and His Office (Cabaret Echo & Somewhere Nice Festival), Dodge:a queer dramaCruisingDon & Bell (Broke People Play Festival), The Love Part (La MaMa Galleria: Queer Love Show)
 
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