2024 · 1 hour 15 minutes · Captions

Our Country

Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff

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About this performance

Inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, artist Annie Saunders sets off on an autobiographical journey, using recreations of recorded conversations with her outlaw brother.

From Ancient Greece to the wild American frontier, Our Country brings origin myths down to earth in an intimate portrait of a complex sibling relationship. Inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, artist Annie Saunders sets off on an autobiographical journey, using recreations of recorded conversations with her outlaw brother. The past unfurls, enveloping them and the audience. Inside this shape-shifting space, the two face each other at their most primal. Our Country excavates the past to rethink the present, recalling a time when we were young - as individuals, as a nation, as a democratic system. How far have we really come?

About the artist

Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff

Annie Saunders is a multidisciplinary creator of site-specific experiences, and has made award-winning installations and performance works for major arts institutions as well as immersive projects in disused buildings and experiential works for public space. She is a member of the inaugural ONX Studio, and an alumnus of the Devised Theater Working Group. Saunders is the founder and artistic director of the site-specific performance company Wilderness. Becca Wolff is a California-based director of theater and film. Her work has appeared on Bay Area stages, including ACT, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Center Rep, and Z Space. In LA, she has worked with Son of Semele Ensemble and VS. Theatre Company, among others. Elsewhere in the West, she directs Summer Shakespeare at Telluride Theatre in Telluride, Colorado. She is co-founder and artistic director of SCOTUS Theater, whose theatrical adaptations of supreme court cases have been presented by legal and arts organizations nationwide.
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