Theatergoers can expect an exciting and bold end to TheaterWorks Hartford\u2019s 2023-2024 season with SANDRA\u2014a theatrical one-woman thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obie-winner Jared Mezzocchi directs this performance, written by David Cale and featuring original music by Matthew Dean Marsh. It explores how people reinvent and transform themselves when faced with adversity. The show also features original video design and creative content by Camilla Tassi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSandra is a play about psychological reframing of a past journey, and we are using the technology to make the journey feel\u2013truly\u2013that we are in real-time,\u201d commented Mezzocchi. \u201cThe visuals will never turn off, and will feel as though we are intimately attached to Sandra\u2019s journey\u2026As if climbing into Sandra\u2019s mind and seeing not only what she saw, but how she saw it and how she felt when she saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emmy-nominee Felicia Curry stars as Sandra, who finds herself on a desperate search for her closest friend, a musician named Ethan after he mysteriously disappears on a trip to Mexico. The piano compositions he leaves behind keep Sandra company. Although she finds some of his emotional presence in his pieces, her friend seems to have simply vanished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHer search for clues leads her into both a highly charged love affair and increasingly dangerous territory,\u201d reads the TheaterWorks Hartford description<\/a>. \u201cFeaturing an original piano score, this engaging journey takes you on an immersive experience that ultimately asks how far would you go for love?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n