Full-length in one act.
Cast: two actors or eight. Running time: 90 minutes.
Synopsis: Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things. Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones.
This play is a film: a documentary about what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up and how they left and how they survived. An enactment of seven startling, personal interviews, inspired by true stories, performed by two people (or more). A rebellious look at where we’ve been and where we are right now.
Script History:
2024 World Stage Premiere: Firehouse Theatre, Richmond, Virginia February 7-25, 2024. Directed by Nathaniel Shaw.
2023 Official Play/Film Selection for the 2023 Theatre Times” International Online Theatre Festival: Theatre and its Others, WorkShop Theater, NYC. Streaming on demand April 17-30, 2023.
2022 WorkShop Theater produces film version of the play with eight-actor cast and streams it online as a workshop production and fundraiser for the theater. The films stars Frank Wood, Vivia Font, Bhavesh Patel and more. Directed by Thomas Cote.
2022 Hobart and William Smith College Theatre Department, livestreamed production. March 3-5, 2022. Directed by H. May.
2022 South Dakota State University New Works Festival.
2022 UCSB LaunchPad BIPOC Reading Series directed by Jonathan Green.
2022 Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
2022 Semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
2021 Future Labs at The Goodman Theatre directed by Lavina Jadhwani.
2021 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival directed by Michael John Garces.
Media:
From the Hobart & William Smith College livestreamed staging (2022):
Photo gallery: https://www.drheathermay.com/memories-of-overdevelopment
Clips from the production: https://youtu.be/FZ75PS-JJ_Y
And https://youtu.be/sqFnZT55jb8
From the Workshop Theater, NYC, filmed version (2022)
Clips from: Bhavesh Patel as The Clerk: https://youtu.be/JnGl1ilKsOQ
Vivia Font as The Filmmaker: https://youtu.be/Q4pxqtv8ZUQ