Play:

She-She-She

Marc O'Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center
May 2018 - June 2018

This vibrant collaborative piece tells a modern tale of alienation through the stories of six women across generations. Set in a New Deal-era women’s work camp on New York’s Bear Mountain, She-She-She highlights the nonlinear nature of progress and explores how we wrestle with the intersections of our inheritance.

Photo by: Al Foote III

Photos by: Al Foote III

In the 1930’s, Eleanor Roosevelt championed the “She She She” camps as a New Deal program tailored for women, housed in America’s National Parks. Jobless women from across the country moved away from their home of origin to gain hospitality and forestry training, and developed a uniquely progressive and interestingly cooperative education along the way. She-She-She is inspired by the friendship between Roosevelt and Pauli Murray (architect of the civil rights and women’s movements, gender pioneer), sparked at Hudson Valley’s Camp Tera. Despite their disparate perspectives shaped by their difference in race and class, a need for social justice and mutual respect served as the foundation for their friendship and catalyzed their shared ideation, learning and progress.

Photos by: Al Foote III

The Team: 

Concept: Carrie Heitman
Director: Chad Lindsey
Writer: Cynthia Baba
Costume Design: Krista Intranuovo
Sound Design: Nok Kanchanabanka
Lighting Design: Alejandro Fajardo
Scenic Design: Patrick Burlingham
Production Stage Manager: Katie Sammons

DEVISED & PERFORMED BY: 
Cynthia Babak*, Emily Kunkel*, Carrie Heitman*, Chad Lindsey, Elizabeth London*, Nylda Ria Mark, Asia Mark, Javan Nelson, Jeremy Rafal

*Member of Actors Equity Association

Reviews

Relentlessly alive, it embodies the idea that “there are no wrong answers.” Tipping its hat to intelligent design, SHE-SHE-SHE serves as a meta-commentary on growth and discovery while growing and discovering.
— the theatre times
Where Hook & Eye’s real genius lies, however, is in mining the comedy to be had in the nuanced awkwardness of the interaction of strangers through brilliantly pared back dialogue and understated acting. It’s the sort of humor that doesn’t even register as comedy at first, yet slowly and quietly builds to something both genuinely funny and somehow touching.
— exeunt
Altogether, Hook & Eye display their ensemble spirit in She-She-She. The acting is excellent and there is a clear, shared vision behind the work.
— exeunt
This is a company that will continue to push, in fun and creative ways, the limits of theatre, expanding the barriers and creating new and compelling tales, and that is something to look forward to.
— the front row center
Audacious and conceptually fascinating . . . a play like She-She-She reminds us of what’s possible and can inspire us to agitate and organize for a better, more humane, world.
— theasy.com
Performed with a playful lack of self-consciousness that is refreshing and endearing, She-She-She is often messy but in the best of ways, daring to break free of convention to allow stories to be told as discovered and devised, rather than shoehorned into familiar form.
— stage left

Teaser

Video by: Kyle Beckley, Full Out Creative
Edited by: Colin Edleman