It’s bizarre, it’s brilliant, and it masterfully makes its point-that through abstraction, the human mind attempts to formulate a story, no matter how disparate the pieces.įORTITUDE CAPITAL GAZETTE “We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.” Using snippets of various productions-in- progress (a puppet show, an opera, a thriller, a Skype-esque conversation on tiny TV sets in the audience), and periods of directorial dialogue heard through headphones, Follow No Strangers depicts the artistic process from the inside out, leaving the audience with the experience of both having seen a play and having not seen a play. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on St. Pierson, a parting of ways that was explored in the show, performed inside St. It’s a bold new work that unfortunately marks the last directorial collaboration between Acme Corporation founders Stephen Nunns and Lola B. This play blurs the lines between fact and fiction, audience and actor, and abstraction versus narrative-all without being pretentious. PLAY Follow No Strangers to the Fun Places