Listen in as story originator & performer Samantha Blain, puppet designer & performer Casey Scott Leach, and co-director Mikayla Stanley of Hit The Lights! Company’s new work ISLA discuss their company’s process, “why?,” making everything by hand, blending fiction and history, adding the audience, keeping so many experimental irons in the fire, allowing time to live, the importance of design, solenodons, and how your family’s story can become a magical piece of theatre.
“…it’s a story about three sisters that leave a war-torn island, and it’s inspired by my mom and my aunts fleeing from Cuba in 1969 on the freedom flights…”
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