Loeb Experimental Theater
Bound at the play's inception in an asylum's "tranquilizing chair," Mary Girard struggles with only more confinement: even after she is freed from the chair, she must confront not only the stigma of being labeled insane but also the ways in which her gender precludes her from acting for herself. Lanie Robertson's short play considers the fluid nature of sanity and sovereignty as it follows Mary and her attendant group of "Furies," who are either inmates of the asylum, creations of Mary's mind or both. Director Mimi Asnes '02, a Women's Studies concentrator, cites Foucault and de Certeau as having influenced her reading of the play. Asnes admits that Robertson's script has some weaker passages but adds that it is "fun and exciting because there is a lot of room for actors to explore movement and sound and relationship." Indeed, Asnes, who designed lighting for the production, has taken great pains to integrate lighting, sound and choreography, counting on this synthesis to maximize the visceral sensory impact of the play.
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