A Devised Play & exploration of identity and prejudice, following a Polish woman (Kasia Caravello) and a nonbinary Filipino individual (Daye Thomas) as they navigate cultural stereotypes, political tensions, and personal biases through stand-up, traditional martial arts, and folk dance - ultimately finding a common ground in their shared humanity.
Kasia Caravello, Brave Sohacki, Rocco Water, Sofia marks and Dylan Hankins created an ensemble and came together to devise a piece with the desire to take control of our artistic voices. It felt alive. It felt worthy. This was our protest play.
We are local artists devising work on our own terms. The piece talks about what it means to truly press onward, uplifting our own voices and stories.
PETE’s Weather Room is an ongoing experiment in wrestling with the climate crisis and creating new work in a pandemic. PETE’s design team began by creating a room, an environment, a cycle of weather that lasts exactly 23:26 (taken from the tilt of the earth’s axis). It’s a room without walls, filled with sound, wind and light, astro turf and clay birds, stripes and bee suits. PETE has conceived of the Weather Room Project as a focal point for community dialogue, a gathering place of dreams, stories and ideas about the future.
The show written and directed by Dylan Hankins, performed in Castilian Spanish and live interpreted into English.
NINA, inspired by Anton Chekhov’s “Seagull”, speaks on how our choices affect our reality, exploring our dreams, desires and existence in the face of destiny.
Directed by Rachel Wells Performed by Daye Thomas, Dylan Hankins, Kasia Caravello and Naomi Bowers, music by Zabavva band, stage management and creative assistance by Wy
Nina was a part of the Tree of Vice Festival which was the culmination of the ICP training, where eight artists, guided by PETE, learned, grew, fought and found each other again and again, on the other side of our collision points, discovering in those spaces, something wild and sacred.