Playing the Game

"This performance is not something you simply go and see.
It's something you experience—moving, hilarious, and deeply profound."

In Playing the Game, Denise Casey explores the many games we play in order to belong from taking cover in a monastery skipping out of rehab, to going halfway across the world to hear the Himalayas, or time traveling through a seventh grade science class. In this 60-minute, one-woman play, Denise follows the games she's played through the seen and unseen world into a larger collective moment, the summer of 2020. Part memoir, part meditation, part make-believe, Playing the Game is unblicking in its exploration of possibility and courage.

What Audiences are Saying:

“Denise Casey is a master storyteller and gifted performer. Playing the Game gives truth to the claim that the more we mine our own experiences of suffering, of insight, and of grace, the more universal our story becomes. Casey stages a performative autobiography that never forgets that - more often than not - we are a mystery even to ourselves. - Katie Gough, dramaturge and Associate Professor of English & Theatre at Univerity of Vermont.

“Evocative. Powerful. Healing.”- Audience Member

“This piece brought me back to .... non-salvational generosity - how I want to show up in this world.” - Audience Member

Recommended for ages 16+

Denise Casey (she/her) is a playwright, performing artist, storyteller and teaching artist. She is most interested in the ways storytelling, expressive and performing arts are tools for transformational change, both personally and collectively. Her creative work and teaching invites audiences to step inside the stories we're most afraid to tell, hear or be close to. She's taught experience-based learning in schools, universities, businesses and treatment centers for over a decade, facilitating workshops, seminars and classes in mindfulness, voicework, writing, storytelling, and the creative process.

www.gotthisvoice.com

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