Patrick Tombs and I are tip-toeing into a devised theater piece about Otherness & identity inspired by Anne Carson’s epic prose poem Autobiography of Red. The story of a monster who is also a boy, who falls in love with the hero he knows will kill him, who wrestles with his self-image as captured in others’ eyes. All about labels & boxes, inclusion & exclusion, definition & agency & denial & freedom.
A conversation with Patrick about the personal resonances in the piece will be published in the first essay collection from the Night School Bar imprint (edited by Lindsey Andrews).