The Brick and Human Head Performance Group present the story of Hero, a woman under house arrest, and her Lawyer, who travels the world trying to find information that will set her free. More…
Inspired by the 18th Century French novel 'Voyage Around My Room,' the story follows the ups, downs, strange turns, and mental excursions of a modern woman—our Hero—who is bound to her own home while awaiting a court date that may never come. She has little to occupy her but a world-traveling Lawyer who writes letters he never sends, a house cat who writes plays she can’t understand, and a guard who swears he’s listening to everything she says.
See it if You're looking for something both abstract and intelligibly poignant. This is definitely off the beaten path but it is refreshingly so.
Don't see it if You don't like even a little bit of the absurd.
See it if you like ambitious, but unpretentious experimental theater. Deeply rooted in mystery, while managing to be both playful & profound.
Don't see it if you like neat, narrative stories -- this one embraces its mysteries in ways that take you deep down the rabbit hole with no explanations.