Flush is an original play with music that centers on the lives of four girls who escape to the woods to rid themselves of grief through spells and prayer. Flush gives the performers and the audience the opportunity to come together and face the horrors of girlhood. Through attempted magic, ritual, and spiritual practice, the girls of the water stream strive to conjure agency. In their alcove of the grossest and darkest place of the woods, they harness the power of their environment and, specifically, the water, to fight for their liberation. The use of violence does not free them from their grief or their traumatic ties to men, but in their struggle we see the possibility of release. Song and ritual are their resistance and with that, Flush is attempting to heal.

Production History:

Sarah Lawrence College, (Bronxville, NY), fall 2020

Directed by Amanda Card

Music direction by Meaghan Bonds

Sound Engineering by SD

Cast: Saffron Quinn, Audrey Stathakis, Allegra Dubus-Brandolini, Annie Porter

Sarah Lawrence College, (Bronxville, NY), spring 2020 (staged reading)

Directed by Hallie Riddick

Music direction by SD and Meaghan Bonds

Cast: Tyandria Jabber, Rachel Mikita, Maddie Aldecoa, Maria Schreiner

National Theater Institute, (Waterford, CT), fall 2019 (Reading)

Directed by Emily Blanquera

Music direction by John-Alex Warner

Cast: Emmalee Allen, Cherokee Rose, Megan Hammerer, Josette Axne

Directed by Emily Blanquera

Music direction by John-Alex Warner

Cast: Emmalee Allen, Cherokee Rose, Megan Hammerer, Josette Axne

National Theater Institute, (Waterford, CT), 2019