Photo by Chicago Magazine (2010) by Eva Laporte Rebecca Gilman’s Swing State: A Contemporary Play Arrives for Its San Antonio Premiere Why Surround Project chose Swing State I spend a lot of time reading new plays for Surround Project. When we’re selecting work for San Antonio theatre audiences, we look for contemporary scripts that feel … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Rebecca Gilman
Why we’re choosing imagination over resolutions this #NationalVisionBoardDay January usually invites resolutions. Be better. Do more. Fix yourself. Which usually suggests that we’re not enough already. Instead, this new year, we’re inviting our creative circle to “vision board” for their new creative year ahead. On National Vision Board Day, people around the country are cutting … Continue reading Vision Boarding our New Chapter in San Antonio Theatre
Surround Project is a San Antonio–based theatre company creating connective experiences around contemporary American plays—stories that speak directly to the world we’re living in right now. We believe theatre can be more than watching a story unfold in the dark. It can be something we experience together. Something that sparks conversation, builds connection, and leaves … Continue reading Let’s Play! Relaunching Surround Project
Surround Project explores family in ‘Four Places’ by Deborah Martin | June 5, 2019 The Surround Project debuted in 2017 with “9 Circles,” an intense drama digging into the damage of warfare borne by those on the front lines, an experience that many may not have had first-hand. The company’s second offering, a look into … Continue reading PRESS: Four Places
Two June Plays Present Opportunities To Address PTSD and Other Trauma by Nicholas Frank | June 13, 2019 “Paralyzing family resentments, depleted affections, and sublimated cruelties” in Four Places, a play about “the insular toxicity of the nuclear family.” Or, a “mutually destructive rivalry” in the Sam Shepard play True West, described as “opaque, terrifying, surrealistic.” It may seem contradictory to offer … Continue reading PRESS: Four Places
