The Pi Provocateur series returns with Screen Door's unconventional ghost stories, December 3
Applied Science’s inaugural show brings together playwright José Teodoro and composer-musician Stephen Lyons
Photo by Laura Barrón
The Pi Provocateur Series will present Applied Silence's inaugural project, Screen Door—a collaboration between playwright José Teodoro and composer-musician Stephen Lyons—on December 3 at Saint James Community Square.
Together, the two artists have created two idiosyncratic ghost stories: in one, a woman receives a postcard originally delivered to her now-deceased father 36 years earlier; in the other, a man falls asleep at the movies and wakes to discover he’s been transformed in some manner beyond his reckoning.
It’s performed by a seven-member ensemble, including Tasha Faye Evans, Steven Hill, Jessie Liang, Shanto Acharia (Fond of Tigers), Stephen Lyons (Fond of Tigers), and Paul Rigby (Neko Case, Calexico).
These stories conjure the feeling of being haunted by some unresolved past, of repetition and doubling, of eternal return, of time folding in on itself.
Screen Door is a post-rock tandem narrative immersing audiences in an intimate, uncanny, darkly humorous journey that speaks to the strangeness of navigating our labyrinthine modern world. Pi Theatre’s series spotlights risk-taking, category-defying, fearless performance.
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