The Living Ones

Cast: 6 actors
Run time: 120 minutes

There’s a fire burning through the Pacific Northwest. Four teenagers on the brink of uncertain futures begin hearing a message from the old-growth forest near their home. Something like a song, echoing from the trees… Many years later, in the same place, two siblings grapple with the mystery of their recently deceased mother – an activist dedicated to forest preservation. Past, future, and present intertwine in this queer myth about the pain and joy of change.

“Prayer to the Fire:
Keep burning, even when I can’t see you.
Light my way forward.
Mark me. Change me forever.
Don’t let me forget you.”

Press

"‘The Living Ones’ offers original undergraduate staging of climate crisis,” Brown Daily Herald

Awards

Finalist, Lanford Wilson Festival of New American Plays

Production History

University, Brown University, 2022

Director: Maxime Hendrikse Liu
Associate Director: Navaiya Williams
Stage Manager: Ania Briscoe
Set Designer: Ford Haley-Rowe
Lighting Designer: Lizzy Steeves
Sound/Projections Designer: Irene Zhiyi Chen
Props Designer: Anik Levcovici
Composer: Marijke Perry
Music Director: Catherine Jones
Dramaturg: Kaitlin Goldin

Cast:
Sofia Tazi, Lucid Clairvoyant, David Sánchez Herrera, Jason Tristan Brown, Kira Bierly, Lex Tin

Photos by Erin X. Smithers, courtesy of Brown University