By Renae Simone Jarrett
Directed by Sarah Hughes
World Premiere
LCT3
October-November 2023
“…chock-full of magical surprises and mystical transformations.”
–The New York Times
“Endlessly engaging! …natural direction by Sarah Hughes… captivating performances…and a haunting atmosphere, Daphne is impossible to look away from.”
–INTO
“A deeply imaginative and haunting tale of love, nature, and the cost that often comes with truly escaping.”
–Front Row Center
With Jasmine Batchelor, Denise Burse, Naomi Lorrain, Keilly McQuail, Jeena Yi
Set Maruti Evans
Costumes Oana Botez
Lighting Stacey Derosier
Sound Sadah Espii Proctor
Illusions Steve Cuiffo
Props Alexander Wylie
Fight/Intimacy Director Rocío Mendez
Stage Manager Kara Kaufman
Assistant Stage Manager Genevieve Ortiz
Assistant Director Kayla Amani Addison
Assistant Fight/Intimacy Director Amaal Saifudeen
Daphne left the city to live in the woods with her girlfriend Winona two months ago. Or has it been two years? They’re not in the middle of nowhere but…almost, and things in the house are beginning to sour. As a strange transformation takes hold of Daphne’s body, a series of unsettling incidents and sudden intrusions lead her to question the boundaries of reality. DAPHNE asks what truths are hidden in plain sight and what it takes to escape the worlds we construct.
Photos by Marc J. Franklin.