The SuperGeographics
Parsley
April 8-9 2025
IN RESIDENCE: March 25 – April 14, 2025
How do you win when the deck is stacked against you? And in times like these, what was it your mother used to say? Does he really expect you to listen while he is going on about snails? Are you selfish?
Performed in English and Spanish, Parsley is a snapshot of the same two people, C & X, across three distinct points in history; then, before, & ago. Each era is different – some have corsets while others boast maternity leave – but for C nothing much changes. Her mother is still dead. Her sisters, gone or run off. Her brother, away. Her overbearing ‘over-caffinated mall-cop’ type uncle, still imminent. And as always X is here, needing. Always he needs more of her than she wants to give; his baby, her house, the kingdom.
PERFORMANCES:
Tuesday April 8th at 5pm
Wednesday April 9th at 4pm & 7pm
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes
PRICE: Pay-What-You-Can
At IRT: 154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)
ADA Accessible
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“X – Te amo realmente. Te amo realmente and I want a baby. ¿En qué momento esas dos cosas dejaron de ir de la mano?”
Is that really too much to ask? He didn’t choose to be this either but now that we’re here, here we are. Where else is there to go?
The space between the hope of expectation and the disappointment of reality creates a chasm between them which they try desperately to cross. As they navigate social constraints against their own ambitions, they exhaust the options of custom and end up wrecked and ruined.
Well, she does. He’ll be fine.
Parsley by Caitlin George & directed by Jonathan Taikina Taylor is a dissection of the theatrical forms and stories that were told to us as all of history. We dig through the graveyard of the fallen and forgotten women towards forgotten knowns, greedy Generals, and our mothers’ fury. Working backwards we scrape off the plaque of canon to exhume what power is in a woman’s herb.
“C – My mother always used to tell me that parsley is a woman’s herb. Not the plant, that la hierba era para las mujeres. I’ve no idea what that means.”
Written by Caitlin George
Directed by Jonathan Taikina Taylor
A play of The SuperGeographics
Translated by Andrea Pelegrí Kristić
C Violeta Picayo
X Juan Diego Bonilla
Furies Akiko Aizawa
Scenographer Jackie Fox
Stage Manager Alison Greene
Videographer Vaishanavi Raul
“[George’s] heightened tone sometimes recalls the plays of Sarah Ruhl and Charles Mee…” – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation & support for ASL interpretation provided in part through funding from Access A.R.T./New York.
ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org