Past Shows
We Are Not These Hands
"Hands bristles with bright, comic originality"
-Rob Hurwitt, SF, Chronicle
"Bold and engaging, "We Are Not These Hands" is as fun as it is frightening" -Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
We Are Not These Hands
by Sheila Callaghan
directed by Kent Nicholson
played June 23 – July 16, 2006 at Ashby Stage
In We Are Not These Hands, playwright Callaghan considers the effects of rampant capitalism on a country that is ill prepared to deal with its fallout. Asked about the impulse behind the play, Callaghan said: "I wanted to write about the challenges facing third world countries but didn't know how. So instead, I wrote a love story."
We Are Not These Hands is set in a fictional landscape where a river divides a prosperous country from one where war, poverty, and dictatorship have destroyed the infrastructure - with the exception of ubiquitous Internet cafes. Ever since their school blew up, teenagers Belly and Moth have spent their time peering through the windows of an illegal Internet Café hoping to cross over into the mysterious realms they can only glimpse on the screen. When Leather, a pampered scholar from the other side of the river, arrives to do research on their culture, the girls take particular interest in this strange man with a secret. As their relationship develops, the encounter threatens to explode their understanding of history and forge a connection that will save them all.
Featuring: Cassie Beck*^, Paul Lancour^, and Juliet
Tanner^
Set Design: Joel Frangquist
Lighting Design: Heather Basarab^
Costume Design: Bree Hylkema
Sound Design: Cliff Caruthers and Kristin Miltner
Video Design: elastic future
*Member Actors' Equity Association. We Are Not These Hands is an Equity-approved project.
^Crowded Fire Company Member.