brainsmash

Archived Show

Overview

Produced by:: The Hearth
Dates:: March 02 - March 19, 2023
Run Time:: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
Intermission:: No
Theater:: Showing in Theater
Tickets:: $25 (59E59 Member price: $20)

Show Info

By Sophie Weisskoff
Directed by Emma Miller

With Andrew M. Duff, Julia Greer, Beth Griffith, Emma Kikue, Paola Sanchez Abreu, and Julia Weinberg

After Maisie gets hit by a car, a traumatic brain injury turns her life upside down. Suddenly computer screens hurt to look at, a haunting reptile taunts, and why did no one ever tell her that speech-to-text would be this hard?

brainsmash is a sense-engaging, funny-sad play about acquired disabilities and being there for those who need you the most, even if they don’t know how to ask.

Andrew

Duff

Julia

Greer

Beth

Griffith

Emma

Kikue

Paola

Sanchez Abreu

Julia

Weinberg

Cat Raynor,

Scenic Design

Margaret Montagna,

Sound Design

Dan Wang,

Costume Design

Vittoria Orlando,

Lighting Design

Photo Caption: Julia Weinberg and Paola Sanchez Abreu in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Julia Greer, Julia Weinberg, and Emma Kikue in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Andrew Duff and Julia Weinberg in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Julia Weinberg and Emma Kikue in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Beth Griffith, Emma Kikue, Julia Weinberg, and Andrew Duff in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Beth Griffith and Julia Weinberg in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Photo Caption: Paola Sanchez Abreu, Julia Weinberg, and Julia Greer in BRAINSMASH
Photo: Jenny Gardner

Producing Company

The Hearth

The Hearth nurtures and celebrates women, trans, non-binary artists and artists of underrepresented genders. We commission, develop, and produce plays that explore characters who pulse with emotional, intellectual, and psychological complexity and, by so doing, we challenge gendered stereotypes, advance and complicate the conversation about feminism, and expand perceptions of what it means to be live in a body that has been historically oppressed or marginalized due to gender expression.

Reviews

"Excellent"
"The strength of brainsmash lies in how it chronicles both the clinical aspects of Maisie's injury and the impact it has on those around her. It's all quite realistically presented from both angles" – Talkin' Broadway

"Disability, let alone an invisible one, is seldom explored on stage, and brainsmash gives the spotlight, in ways raw and illuminating, to the minutiae of one person’s specific traumatic brain injury." – The Broadway Blog