EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR

The Lab Theatre at the Clarence Brown

Knoxville, TN

Script: Lauren Gunderson

Director: Casey Sams

Lighting Design: Helen Garcia-Alton

Scenic and Projection Design: Katie Stepanek

Costume Design: Margo Birdwhistle

Sound Design: Chandler Oppenheimer

This play deals with a woman taking control of her life after having been in an abusive marriage for some time. After duct taping him to a chair he is forced to watch the reenactment of some of the worst moments of their marriage. Although dark, this is a comedy at heart. To communicate that, the lighting is primarily bright and generally realistic until the husband gains control of the story and pulls the play into an abstract world that is intended to bring his wife back to him, that is when more saccharine tones color the stage in hopes that the more overtly romantic, the more likely she is to return.

Photographer: Brynn Yeager

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