On The Y-Axis
by Lucas Baisch
Alfredo Antillon
About On The Y-Axis
Last Fall, a PG&E power line explodes. A shed catches flame. A tree. A neighborhood. Today, a hard drive tumbles its way out of a hole – out of the home of a burnt corpse – and data item turns into cataclysm. Part climate anxiety, part Book of Revelation, part digital archive: On the Y-Axis presents “play” as a poison to the host body.
Lucas Baisch’s play, inspired by the Book of Revelations and the digital archive discovered at Osama bin Laden’s Abottabad compound, presents a scenes of fractures story pre- and post- apocalypse. Staged in an ambitious workshop production as a part of Brown University’s MFA new works festival, this play shows audiences where they already are: teetering on the brink of feral, tethered by USB cable to memories that make up life.
CAST
Alfredo Antillon
Andrew Gombas
Fiona Maguire
Kai Tshikosi
PRODUCTION
Written by Lucas Baisch
Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy
Stage Managed by Tyler Zickmund
Photos by Lucas Baisch
Brown University Writing is Live Festival, 2020
Left to right: Fiona Maguire and Kai Tshikosi
Left to right: Alfredo Antillon and Fiona Maguire
Alfredo Antillon
Left to right: Alfredo Antillon and Kai Tshikosi
Left to right: Alfredo Antillon and Kai Tshikosi
Left to right: Fiona Maguire and Kai Tshikosi
Andrew Gombas
Andrew Gombas
Left to right: Fiona Maguire and Kai Tshikosi
Left to right: Alfredo Antillon and Fiona Maguire
Andrew Gombas