Look Out

Written by Sara Farrington

Directed by Melissa Firlit​​

Produced by Haley Rice, in partnership with Theatre 4 The People

Featuring Katheen Macari as Mara Glass & Hannah Lehrer as Ruth Glass

It's 1999, Mara and Ruth Glass are teenagers, a drama kid and a punk (played by adults) trapped inside the bedroom where their mother attempted suicide earlier that evening. Over the course of the play, the girls piece together the insidious anti-feminist motivators driving their mother’s life and inevitable suicide. Soon, the portrait of a woman destroyed by society, misogyny, Hollywood, men and diet culture emerges. This was woman who was determined to shape her daughters in her own twisted image. But like in Jean Genet's The Maids, the girls unravel it all--- in turns playacting, mimicking, obfuscating, blaming, physically and verbally sparring, singing and dancing. As they anticipate the phone call with Mom's fate, they anatomize the bedroom itself, a micro-America and from it, like 2 Cassandras, they predict the dark world approaching on “the other side of the century.”  Look Out is a female teenaged girl's view of death, afterlife, beforelife, entropy, god, meaning, nihilism and finally a great epiphany--- the girls share an unspeakably dark secret. Look Out brushes in imagery from Homer's Odyssey, Old Hollywood and Film Noir films of the 1940s, 90s pop music, Alan Ginsburg, the iconic death of Evelyn McHale, Nick at Nite and more, generating a disturbing, but inevitably hopeful world.