The Chicken Play

Performed by
Leila Mesdaghi
Katelyn Gravel
Kaleena Rivera
Paulo Leon-Silva

Music by Philip Huebeck and Victor Balo

Creative Team
House Manager: Liz Gravel
Stage Manager: Isaac Espinosa
Costume Designer: Liz & Katelyn Gravel
Props: Rusy Coe, Cesar Aguilera, Brittney Brady
Producer: Brittney Brady

In The Chicken Play, a young woman comes to terms with some unknown trauma, recovering the fragments and disharmonies of her life among a community of women. Ritual, song, dance, and spoken word are the gestures of meaning making, of grounding and belonging. In learning to accept herself, as our heroine discovers, is the most elemental and magical discovery.

Told in Spanish and English, in song and confession, and in music and dance, The Chicken Play inspires us to regard own vulnerability and beauty with a brave and honest look.

A note to our audience:
We are gathered here today for a kind of ritual, a kind of healing. We'll move together with the music as our guide from one resting place to the next. All we ask is that you try to soften around any impulse to make sense of what you're seeing, and remember that what is felt, after some time, can become wisdom.