Water In My Hands: World Premiere at Vivid Stage • December 2-12
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Water in My Hands
by Emma Gibson
December 2, 3, 4 @ 8PM,
December 5 @ 2PM,
December 9, 10, 11 @ 8PM,
December 12 @ 2PM
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Sorrel is busy preparing for her
wedding even though her fiancé has just died, and Maria’s eyebrows
are still not growing back. Gerry wants to know if the weather will
improve so that he can lie on his back in the grass. Through a series
of interweaving accounts, Water in My Hands lays bare the power of
grief, and asks, ‘How do we move on when we are haunted by the life
that we have not yet lived?’
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CAST
Harry Patrick Christian
Laura Ekstrand
Daria M. Sullivan
Thomas Vorsteg
Directed by Jane Mandel
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Emma Gibson is a British theatre-maker, now
living in Philadelphia. In the UK she worked as an actress in both
new writing and classical theatre and also worked as a freelance
journalist for The Guardian Newspaper. She was the founding producing
artistic director of Tiny Dynamite, a theatre company in
Philadelphia, and spent 7 years producing work and commissioning
playwrights. Since 2017 she has been working as a playwright and her
plays have been selected, developed, read or performed at The
Pittsburgh Public Theatre, PlayPenn, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre
Festival, Spooky Action Theatre Company, DC, Miranda Theatre Company
at The Cherry Lane, NYC, and Vivid Stage NJ.
She was
recently announced as the winner of The Pittsburgh Public Theater’s
inaugural new play competition and was selected for Panndora’s Box, a
festival of new plays by Panndora Productions in LA. She has been a
finalist and a semi-finalist for The O'Neill New Play Conference
(2021, 2020), a finalist for Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival 2020, a
finalist for the Henley Rose New Play Competition 2021, a finalist
for Headwaters at Creede Rep 2021 a semi-finalist for Premiere Stages
at Kean 2020, a semi-finalist for Ashland New Plays 2021 and The Bay
Area Playwrights Festival 2021. Her poetry has been published by
Willowdown Books (Poems from the Lockdown) and Indolent Books (What
Rough Beast).
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