CLICK HERE to return to DIRECTING GALLERY

CHILDHOOD

by Thornton Wilder

White Box Theater, 3/f, 440 Lafayette St.,
Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU Tisch (2011)

(direction/scenography/sound) Eugene Ma   (scenography) Ilse Lansdale   (scenic art) Gregorius Kuijlenburg  
(media) Joshua Young   (lighting + T.D.) David Winstead   (asst. scenic) Erin Repp & Brian Pollock
(stage manager) Jacob Braun   (santa's helpers!) Hannah No & Eleot Reich   (photography) Melodie Jeng

Alessandra Varsano -as- Caroline // Emily Epstein -as- Dodie // Grace Glass -as- Mother
Jon Cicoski -as- Father // Tomas Virgadula -as- Billee

“In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child’s-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the children pretend to be orphans. Startling truths emerge on both sides, as pretense challenges the family to discard the traditional roles of parent, spouse, child, and sibling—blurring the lines between perception and reality, artifice and innocence.”