Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
About Us
As a professional collaboration consisting of young NYU and NYC-based artists, we are thrilled to bring this production to life. Continue to scroll to learn more about If Words Could Talk and our core team!
Our Story
The play follows a sequence of stages: i. Awakening, ii. Denial, iii. Rage, iv. Bargaining, and v. Acceptance. Mama embarks on cycles of grief, colliding with the reimagination of her daughter’s lived past. As Ali grieves for her long-deceased father, Mama grieves for her daughter in a return to the dead and (un)buried. The lack of and the surplus of words is what brings them together but also draws them apart.
If Words Could Talk explores themes of communicative collision, a dreamed life of cohesion, raising the myth of beginning, middle & end in the face of old wounds. Here lies the proof: the circularity of a mother’s love transcending names, faces, and places. If only words could speak for themselves– only then, perhaps grief would bend fiction to break the truth.
If Words Could Talk was previously shown at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and selected for the Final First-Year Students Showcase at Playwrights Horizons Theater School in the Black Box Theater on April 30th, 2024.
