Lena Barnard

In 1997, NASA launched the Cassini mission to Saturn. In 1675, Giovanni Domenico Cassini identified the divisions in the rings of Saturn. In the summer, Saturn and Titan host a fête. Spanning 330 years and 975 million miles, Cassini is about saying goodbye.

A moment backstage at Oedipus Rex

Beverly Jaw can’t get out of bed. She lives in her best friend’s basement and pines for his sister, Alice. But her best friend is dead and things with Alice are complicated. On a Monday, a strange man named Fred arrives looking for a private detective. He needs to find Sabrina, his childhood babysitter. Even though she isn’t a private detective, Beverly takes the case. Across town, Alice attempts to sell Sabrina a house. light is a queer noir about depression, loss, and facebook.

This coming-of-age story follows a group of middle-schoolers who lose the ability to play.
At the start of seventh grade, Harlequin, Shoebill, Cygnet and Finch are as close as can be. United by a shared fantasy life and bird nicknames, they’re positive they know everything about their world. None of them are prepared for the moment when their games stop being real, overshadowed by the new monsters of illness, grades, and crushes. As one by one, they lose the safety of their imagined space, their tight-knit group fractures under the pressure to fit in, find love, and group up.

Four old friends and one fresh cabin boy set sail on a new journey. As these women get underway, we discover that the crew’s destination is as much an emotional place as a physical one – due to decades of secrets, romantic entanglements, and bitterness, they might never get there. The further upstream they voyage, the dirtier the water becomes. Featuring climate change, parts of a skeleton, night cows, and an increasingly resentful cabin boy, this dark comedy asks whether it is possible to outrun the present and find a way back to the past.

An absurd take on the noir thriller, the play is set in a country where art is king – he’s literally a statue. During a period of political rebellion, four intertwined groups of visitors to a single hotel room lie, cheat, fall out of love, and play high stakes games of Go Fish. Through these haunting and secretive characters, the show explores what it means to make art or be art, and who gets to decide the difference.

Somewhere in middle America, a long-haul trucker's insomnia is getting worse. Her sense of unreality stretches and grows, punctuated by patchy radio updates in her cab. After getting home from a long trip, she discovers that her partner has been unfaithful, and retaliates by bringing home the first young woman she meets in a bar. When that young woman reveals she knows more about the couple than she should, long-buried secrets are brought to light.