Nothing Really Matters
A wake up call to go back to bed!
Coming January 2024
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A one woman show produced and performed by Aerial Animation's founder Abigail Baird,
Nothing Really Matters is a “wake up call” that encourages a collective exhale in recognition of our need to ''go back to bed!”
Nothing Really Matters is a relatable and electrifying theatrical performance that blends techniques refined through Aerial Animation with new skills including object and shadow puppetry, toy theater, stop-motion and two-dimensional animation, and live-cue software performed on multi-dimensional projection surfaces.
Nothing Really Matters is a hero's journey reframed. Simply surviving in a monochromatic world, our protagonist has spiraled into complete disconnection from the natural beauty around her. In her exhaustion-fueled despair she is swallowed alive by the “Beast that Shames Rest”, a bed-like puppet with a giant mouth. As her resistance to rest gives way, acceptance and stillness kindle her capacity to embrace rest as essential for thriving. Abandoning her pledge to productivity she learns to delight in imperfection and her life fills with color as she connects to the natural world. Reclaiming her right to rest from the elusive jaws of fruitless self-shaming she becomes her own hero. Nothing Really Matters is a fantastical quest to slay the beast that shames “rest” in our productivity-focused world.
The debut performance will be in January of 2024 in the Harriet Jorgensen Theatre at the University of Connecticut and is supported by The Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
Nothing Really Matters is a “wake up call” that encourages a collective exhale in recognition of our need to ''go back to bed!”
Nothing Really Matters is a relatable and electrifying theatrical performance that blends techniques refined through Aerial Animation with new skills including object and shadow puppetry, toy theater, stop-motion and two-dimensional animation, and live-cue software performed on multi-dimensional projection surfaces.
Nothing Really Matters is a hero's journey reframed. Simply surviving in a monochromatic world, our protagonist has spiraled into complete disconnection from the natural beauty around her. In her exhaustion-fueled despair she is swallowed alive by the “Beast that Shames Rest”, a bed-like puppet with a giant mouth. As her resistance to rest gives way, acceptance and stillness kindle her capacity to embrace rest as essential for thriving. Abandoning her pledge to productivity she learns to delight in imperfection and her life fills with color as she connects to the natural world. Reclaiming her right to rest from the elusive jaws of fruitless self-shaming she becomes her own hero. Nothing Really Matters is a fantastical quest to slay the beast that shames “rest” in our productivity-focused world.
The debut performance will be in January of 2024 in the Harriet Jorgensen Theatre at the University of Connecticut and is supported by The Connecticut Repertory Theatre.