Bruka Theatre's Yellow Wallpaper - Listen Here
“It is very seldom that mere ordinary People like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician, and perltaps - (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind - ) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper)
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Bruka Theatre Bridges into Listening Plays
As we have been sequestered for over a year. (We shut down collectively with our Ghost Light Partners on March 13, 2021) I feel like we have been given the opportunity to learn and grow so much. One of our new experiments, that we would like to see continue on is our Listening Play series. Our first offering is an adaptation of a psycological gothic horror style short story The Yellow Wallpaper, written in 1882 by Charlotte Perkins Gillmore. We hope you enjoy this forway into the world of theatre for the ears. As we are in what we like to call “Phase One” of our reopening, we begin this project with our team (Staff: Holly Natwora - Director, Mary Bennett - Actor/Producer, David Simpson - Technical Director, Designer) that bubbled together to create. We look forward to expanding as vaccinations and immunity increases. We hope that this gives audiences a theatrical experience for the ears. Something a bit more produced, styled and lifted off the page for an imaginative journey. We hope this is just the beginning.
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