hallie riddick

Hallie Riddick is a theater artist and songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky currently based in New York. Her work encompasses writing, directing, generating, and performing. She creates works surrounding femmehood and the Southern Gothic. Through magic, song, ritual, and movement, she finds the putrid in the pretty and releases femmehood from the restraints of romanticism. Hallie recently returned as guest artist and alum to Sarah Lawrence College for the premiere of her play with music, FLUSH. Hallie is one half of the duo, RAISING DAUGHTERS, along with her collaborator, Josette Axne. They recently released their debut l.p. GET HOME available on all streaming platforms. Hallie is an alum of Sarah Lawrence College, The Moscow Art Theatre School and The National Theater Institute’s Advanced...

Hallie Riddick is a theater artist and songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky currently based in New York. Her work encompasses writing, directing, generating, and performing. She creates works surrounding femmehood and the Southern Gothic. Through magic, song, ritual, and movement, she finds the putrid in the pretty and releases femmehood from the restraints of romanticism. Hallie recently returned as guest artist and alum to Sarah Lawrence College for the premiere of her play with music, FLUSH. Hallie is one half of the duo, RAISING DAUGHTERS, along with her collaborator, Josette Axne. They recently released their debut l.p. GET HOME available on all streaming platforms. Hallie is an alum of Sarah Lawrence College, The Moscow Art Theatre School and The National Theater Institute’s Advanced Directing Program.

Scripts

FLUSH, a play with music

by hallie riddick

Cast Size

4

Genre

drama

FLUSH is a play with music that centers on the lives of four girls who escape to the woods to rid themselves of grief through spells and prayer. Flush gives the performers and the audience the opportunity to come together and face the horrors of girlhood. In attempting to create magic, rituals, and spiritual practice, the girls of the water stream wrestle to conjure their own agency. Through song and magic, we...

FLUSH is a play with music that centers on the lives of four girls who escape to the woods to rid themselves of grief through spells and prayer. Flush gives the performers and the audience the opportunity to come together and face the horrors of girlhood. In attempting to create magic, rituals, and spiritual practice, the girls of the water stream wrestle to conjure their own agency. Through song and magic, we see them turning back to the oppressor and flipping them off. In their alcove of the grossest and darkest place of the woods, they harness the power of their environment and, specifically, the water, to fight for their liberation. The use of violence does not release them from their grief or their traumatic ties to men, but in their struggle we see the possibility of freedom. Song and ritual are their resistance and with this, Flush is attempting to heal.