Remedy
Remedy, a solo puppetry show, premiered at St. Ann’s Warehouse in February 2022. I am the creator, performer, and puppet designer, and the piece has an original score and soundscape by Thomas Echols.
In my puppetry, I investigate the body as a living object through fragmentation, abstraction, and distortion of scale. Often, I treat the body as a place, the setting in which the story happens. Remedy is a work of autofiction that weaves elements of memoir into puppetry and object theater. In it, I draw from experiences of displacement and living with chronic illness, transforming everyday objects into strange, shattered, animated pieces of the self.
In a series of puppeteered segments, Remedy’s protagonist conjures up ways of coping with mental illness, chronic pain, and everyday suffering, as well as of grieving a profound loss of culture and connection, by inventing her own remedies out of words and objects (none of which seem to work properly). These segments include a remedy for loneliness, a remedy for the grief of losing respect for your parents, a remedy for discovering you are ugly in more ways than you’ve realized, and a remedy for crying your eyes out over dumb shit.
For Healing Machines, an early incarnation of Remedy, visit here.