NO NOTHING

A WORKS IN PROGRESS READING
A play by T. ADAMSON
Directed by KEENAN TYLER OLIPHANT
April 9
April 9
April 9

NO NOTHING

SYNOPSIS

Middle-aged realtor Gwen lives with her dying mother, Martha, in rural East Texas. Isolated from the outside world thanks to a pandemic she only partly believes in, Gwen passes her time caring for Martha, throwing misshapen vases on a potter’s wheel, and flirting with the family’s gregarious yardman, Willie. But when Martha starts hallucinating conversations with a shadowy figure standing in the middle of a dark lake outside their home, both she and Gwen will be forced to confront the histories of resentment, despair, and racial violence that have brought their family to its wounded and codependent present. Could the stranger be an angel or a messenger from some other world? A family play featuring serpents, Arthurian legends, disembodied voices, and a malfunctioning robotic cat.

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T. ADAMSON
2022 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award Recipient
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KEENAN TYLER OLIPHANT
Director
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T. ADAMSON
2022 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award Recipient

T. Adamson is a Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. T. has developed new work with Vineyard Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, Great Plains Theater Commons, Clubbed Thumb, JACK, Cutting Ball, Mercury Store, and many others. Plays include The Natural Horse (Alleyway Theatre), The Straights (JACK), and Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks). He is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group. Awards include Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Maxim Mazumdar Award, a Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons, and the 2022-23 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre. Lecturer of Playwriting at Purchase College. MFA: Hunter College.

KEENAN TYLER OLIPHANT
Director

Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a Theatre-maker and director from Cape Town, South Africa, whose work is in the lineage of Theatre-making and Storytelling traditions of Southern Africa. Selected directing credits include the Heather Christina’s Terce: A Practical Breviary (HERE Arts); To the Ends of the Earth (JACK); Will You Come With Me? (PlayCo), Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play (Harvard TDM); Sam Grabiner’s People on Earth (Columbia University), Vivian Barnes’ Intro To (Ensemble Stage Theatre), queen a queer ritual by Jay Stull (Dixon Place), Self-Combustion of a 30 Something Year Old… (New Ohio) Kyk Hoe Skyn Die Son [Look at How the Sun Shines] (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks) and developed work with NYTW and Ars Nova amongst others. Keenan is an alumnus of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow (2020-2021) and the Drama League Directing Fellowship (2021-2022). MFA Columbia University.