Search for the Interdimensional Bigfoot by Samantha Vargas
31 Jul. 2023
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Sibling relationships are rich territory for exploration; we were shaped by the same events and the same parents, and yet we often perceive that shared experience in vastly different ways. Samantha Vargas’ paranormal family play takes this relatable brother-sister dynamic—-the question of “what really happened in our shared childhood?”—and blows it up to fantastical, cryptozoological proportions. With rich dialogue equally inflected with Spanish, the X-Files, and The Goonies, and some of the most evocative stage directions I’ve yet read (sound designers will thrill to create Vargas’ sci-fi soundscape), SFTIB is an adventure you’ll want to take. ”