The pigs are stressed, Liv won’t eat, and Ma wants everyone to follow the Constitutions. Set in a modern-day commune on the outskirts of the Chihuahuan desert in Texas, this new play about our need for community, asks why the line between delusion and what the rest of us believe, is getting blurrier than ever.
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LUMIN
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Shaun Leisher:
27 Aug. 2023
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Loved this thrilling play about the lengths people will go to keep their community together. ”
Greg Romero:
18 Jul. 2023
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I watched a reading of LUMIN as part of the 2023 Valdez Theater Conference, and I continue to be so impressed by Emma Gibson's writing. This play took me on many emotional journeys, while also (appropriately, horrifyingly) fogging my mind, while also expressing profound, complicated beauty. Gibson's storytelling here smartly plays with time, revealing details that shift perceptions, also bringing urgency and danger to moments that are frightening. The play - with its sounds and visuals - is both theatrical and stifling, placing us in the impossible, heartbreaking, dizzying situations these characters find themselves in. Excellent, challenging, impressive work. ”
Michael C. O'Day:
28 Jun. 2023
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There may be topical echoes of modern-day cults, but at its heart LUMIN is a tragic mystery in the grand American gothic tradition, and a damn good one. It has a wonderfully disturbing insight at its core: in our ever more hectic and disconnected world, communities like Lumin, and leaders like Ma (a terrifically sympathetic villain) seem all too right and reasonable - until the moment their beliefs bring down tragedy on all around them. Marvelously well crafted, and oh so satisfyingly sinister. ”