It begins, as so many of these
stories do, with a knock at the door.
A young couple discovers a
cardboard
baby on their stoop. They grow to love the child, who is completely
flat, as their own. Then someone or
something
takes away the baby to a FlatWorld, a planar landscape populated by
characters whimsical, sinister, and flat as pancakes. The couple, both
ordinary and round, must enter this two-dimensional world to get their
baby back. Can they rescue their adopted child
and escape from a parallel universe in which there is
up-and-down
and side-to-side, but no way out?
Directed by Dan Rothenberg
Text: Tim Sawicki and Pig Iron Theatre Company
Performer/Creators: Hinako Arao, Beth Nixon, David
Sweeny, Alex Torra
Music:
Rosie Langabeer
Set and Animation:
Mimi Lien
Cardboard Creations: Beth Nixon
Lighting Design: James Clotfelter
Sound Design: Nick Kourtides
Costume Design: Leslie Rogers
