“A quirky, unconventional hour of theater, MINE sparkles like one of the diamonds whose commodification it critiques.” – Thinking Theater NYC
A mountain, mined of her insides, collapses into rubble. Near the wreckage, a marriage ends and the home grieves the loss of the family it once housed. Underground, a groundhog hoards an enormous collection of the family’s discarded sentimental items. As the Rubble, the Home, and the Groundhog attempt to reassemble the remnants of their crumbled histories, their worlds begin to merge and intertwine.
Directed and Performed by Shayna Strype, MINE uses a variety of puppetry styles, live-feed projections, stop-motion animation, wearable sculptures, and humor to weave together themes of nostalgia, excess, and the destructive human urge to colonize land, bodies, and minds.
*Support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legistlature, the Conable Family Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson Arts & Cultural Initiative, and the Mary Conable & Norm Gayford Charitable Trust.
