CONCEPT & DIRECTION /
Tina Satter
The true FBI story of Reality Winner: yoga teacher, cat lover, national security threat.
June 2017: Arriving home, Reality finds a team of armed federal agents waiting. They’re investigating a leak. Classified information has got out about Russian hacking to influence the U.S. presidential election.
Reality lets the agents in. They chat. They reposition. Gradually, it becomes clear: this is an interrogation.
The genuine FBI recording of Reality’s interview so struck Tina Satter that she adapted it, word-for-word, as a ready-made script. Without any need for amendment, it plays so fantastically theatrically that it stands as testament to Reality’s real-world wit and complexity.
The 2019 premiere season in New York was a sellout. In 2020, the Brooklyn-based ensemble of performers come to Malthouse Theatre to share an urgent, globally relevant message of agency, power and patriotism within the patriarchy.
Malthouse Theatre presents Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s (USA) Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription.
Key image: Manipulated from found image: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle
CONCEPT & DIRECTION /
Tina Satter
CAST /
Jess Barbagallo, Joe Lanza, Katherine Romans, Richard Toth
SCORE /
Sanae Yamada
COSTUME DESIGN /
Enver Chakartash
SET DESIGN /
Parker Lutz
LIGHTING DESIGN /
Thomas Dunn
SCULPTURAL DESIGN /
Amanda Villalobos
PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGEMENT /
Randi Rivera
ASSISTANT DIRECTION & STAGE MANAGEMENT /
Mariana Catalina
CREATIVE PRODUCER /
Meiyin Wang
WARNINGS /
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‘A searing indictment of the law's treatment of women' — Sydney Morning Herald
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