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WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS by Sheila Callaghan

ENCORE! performances Friday July 21, 8pm; Thursday July 27, 8pm; Saturday July 29, 8pm; Sunday July 30, 7pm

Two cagey 15 year olds, Moth and Belly, live in the ruins of a dystopian society where filth is abundant and the addiction to consumerism and porn is incessant. But, they have each other – a relationship bound by love, an Internet café, and a slew of inside jokes. If they could only “cross the river,” and be in the capitalist society where an ostensible future exists. When they meet Leather, the journey veers in unconceivable directions as a series of humorous events unfold.

Directed by Larry Biederman.

Cast: Albert Dayan, Cicily Glouchevitch, and Emily James

Produced by John Perrin Flynn and Heather Tyler

“Plenty of dark wit. Feels like something Caryl Churchill might have written — after dipping her quill in the blood of Neil LaBute. Poetic…her portrait of transactional sexual politics…the result is a hypnotic, defiantly opaque — and surprisingly tender — portrait of the endgame of globalization and rampant consumerism” – Chicago Tribune

Sheila Callaghan has had her work produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright’s Horizons, Yale Rep, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, Boston Court, and Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. These include Scab, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Dead City, Lascivious Something, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play, Fever/Dream, Everything You Touch, Roadkill Confidential, Elevado, Bed, and Women Laughing Alone with Salad. She is published with Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and several of her collected works are published with Counterpoint Press. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Florida State University, and Spalding University. Sheila is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and a member of the Obie winning playwright’s organization 13P.

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