TRUTH AND BEAUTY BOMBS: A SOFTER WORLD

September 4 - October 5, 2015
A project directed and conceived by Jenny McConnell Frederick
By Randy Baker, Norman Allen, Heather McDonald, Shawn Northrip and Alexandra Petri
Based on the web series A Softer World by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
  • Atlas Performing Arts Center

As a photographer goes blind, he sets out to capture as much of the world as he can.  Through his lens he discovers laundromats that eat hope, cameras that capture souls and a love that just won’t die.  Inspired by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau’s cult web comic A Softer World, Rorschach’s Truth & Beauty Bombs explodes with brutal honesty and dark wit.

“Witty, dark, and hopefully existential.”

DC Metro Theatre Arrs

FEATURING

Sara Barker
Tori Boutin
Frank Britton
Daniel J. Corey
Kendall Helblig
Emily Kester
Scott McCormick
Robert Pike
Christian Sullivan
Sarah Taurchini
Sara Dabney Tisdale
Grady Weatherford

Designers

Lighting Brian S. Allard and Mary Keegan
Set Brian J. Gillick
Props Britney Mongold
Sound Gordon Nimmo-Smith
Erik Teague Erik Teague
Audience Experience Designer Catherine Tripp

WITH

Stage Manager Laura Schlachtmeyer
Technical Director Michael Redman 
ASM Linda Bard
Assistant Lighting Designer Niomi Collard

PRODUCERS

Randy Baker
Jenny McConnell Frederick

MEDIA

PRESS

“…a fictional reality that — despite recurring themes of apocalypse, death and missing socks — remains generally upbeat… the project testifies to Rorschach’s inventiveness and to theater’s ability to be in conversation with other art forms.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
“…affecting and even beautiful… the audience will leave feeling like it saw something fresh, aspiring and original”
DCist
Rorschach Theatre’s brilliant new play… Truth & Beauty Bombs lights the world on fire and dances in the flames. It destroys preconceived notions and offers a new, poetic language for philosophical discussions of life and death.”
DC Theatre Scene