TSGP Observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month with production of “A Lonely Realization”
October 3, 2024
For immediate release
Local theatre company, The Shattered Glass Project, observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month with world premiere production of A Lonely Realization by Darby Sherwood and Emily Stone
This October, as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, The Shattered Glass Project will unveil an original, imaginative play: A Lonely Realization - a deeply personal, honest, and surprisingly funny investigation of the way that sexual assault impacts survivors and communities. Three actors will portray a talking Mushroom and Frog, a disembodied pair of Legs, an ideal 1950’s couple, a talking Clock, Jay Gatsby, and more!
With absurd humor (including a myriad of puppets) alongside a searingly personal story, A Lonely Realization explores institutional and individual responses to sexual assault in artistic and educational spaces. This story is important in our current political and cultural environment, where women are threatened with the loss of legal rights to their bodies and their reproductive and sexual autonomy. The creative team hopes to both entertain and invite audiences to reflect on helping make communities safer for survivors and more resilient against harm. Co-creator Emily Stone says, “When survivors are safe,
Beginning two years ago, co-creators Stone and Darby Sherwood began meeting in a rehearsal room on the UW campus to process their experiences with sexual assault through an ad hoc writing and performance workshop. “The first time Emily and I created this play, we didn’t know what we were making,” says co-creator Sherwood, “we just knew that we needed to process what we were feeling.” They shared their initial two-actor, 45-minute creation with an invited audience, and later took their piece to The Shattered Glass Project (TSGP) for a developmental reading as part of TSGP’s 2023 Script Development Festival.
The Shattered Glass Project, known for its role as an incubator for new works in Seattle, fostered the expansion of the piece into a full-length play, with the support of TSGP board member and dramaturg, Buddy Todd. TSGP selected A Lonely Realization as its 2024 mainstage show, with Artistic Director Rebecca O’Neil directing. Sherwood and Stone will be performing, alongside new actor, Lexi Warden.
A Lonely Realization runs from October 18-27 at Theatre 4 in the Armory, Seattle Center. This is a COVID safer event with masks required and provided, and with air filtration provided by Clean Air Collective Seattle. For more information visit: www.shatteredglassproject.org/a-lonely-realization . Tickets are on sale at: www.simpletix.com/e/a-lonely-realization-tickets-183401.
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Contact:
Rebecca O’Neil, Artistic Director, Director | rebecca@shatteredglassproject.org | 206.650.5396
Emily Stone, Board Member, Co-Playwright & Performer | empstone@gmail.com | 916.996.1256
Press room: https://www.shatteredglassproject.org/press-room-a-lonely-realization