You Are the River, You Are the Void

by Charlotte Lang

The Baba Yaga leads us on a journey through the woods to our local AA meeting, where our heroes struggle to overcome their substance abuse issues while the play itself crumbles around them. An adult fairytale about depression, drugs, and the transformative power of art.

Don't bring your kids.

The Baba Yaga leads us on a journey through the woods to our local AA meeting, where our heroes struggle to overcome their substance abuse issues while the play itself crumbles around them. An adult fairytale about depression, drugs, and the transformative power of art.

Don't bring your kids.

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You Are the River, You Are the Void

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  • Joshua Young: You Are the River, You Are the Void

    Charlotte writes characters that seek out connections with one another while dealing with the profound consequences of pedestrian disappointment. People trying to connect when they've been broken, but not broken because they didn't win some great prize but broken in the way millions of everyday people are broken. I believe it's hard to write those stories and make them resonate... because things that are day-to-day and pedestrian tend to be hard to theatricalize. But Charlottes engage with them well and her plays should receive more attention.

    Charlotte writes characters that seek out connections with one another while dealing with the profound consequences of pedestrian disappointment. People trying to connect when they've been broken, but not broken because they didn't win some great prize but broken in the way millions of everyday people are broken. I believe it's hard to write those stories and make them resonate... because things that are day-to-day and pedestrian tend to be hard to theatricalize. But Charlottes engage with them well and her plays should receive more attention.

  • Mora V. Harris: You Are the River, You Are the Void

    A fantastically imaginative piece of theater. I love the poetry as well as the financial anxiety that seeps through the crevices of this gritty, lonely play.

    A fantastically imaginative piece of theater. I love the poetry as well as the financial anxiety that seeps through the crevices of this gritty, lonely play.

  • Darcy Parker Bruce: You Are the River, You Are the Void

    Ugh. Charlotte's writing is beautiful. She's also such an amazing human, and the kind of artist you definitely want to get in the room with. I love the way she organizes her thoughts on page, and how she brings together the most unlikely themes and ingredients and yet works them together in a way that makes it seems as if they were made for each other. This play is lovely. Read it please.

    Ugh. Charlotte's writing is beautiful. She's also such an amazing human, and the kind of artist you definitely want to get in the room with. I love the way she organizes her thoughts on page, and how she brings together the most unlikely themes and ingredients and yet works them together in a way that makes it seems as if they were made for each other. This play is lovely. Read it please.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Sewanee Writers' Conference, Year 2018

Awards

  • Tennessee Williams Scholarship
    Sewanee Writers' Conference
    2018