Rearranging the Furniture
“Heather May’s piece “Rearranging the Furniture” is a gentle but very powerful journey into marginalization and disability. This masterful theater professor and director lays bare her fear and asks us to share for a moment how she sees.”
Incited by a round of visits to doctors that left me feeling unmoored, this piece is a diagnosis of a disease plaguing the theatre and the performer: lack of vision. A reflection on Tiresias, disability, and the disorientation of the early days of the Trump administration, "Rearranging the Furniture" challenges audiences to create space for difference, hold ground that feels increasingly unstable, and to learn to love or cut the ties that bind.
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“Heather May’s well-written meditation on sight and insight hearkens back to the roots of Western theater with references to Oedipus Rex (who blinds himself) and Tiresias (the blind seer). This seems the perfect launching point for a theater professor and director as she takes us into the unsettling and vulnerable world of someone grappling with a progression toward disability that threatens the future of her work and art-making as she’s always known it.”
