Create Your First Project
Start adding your projects to your portfolio. Click on "Manage Projects" to get started
HELEN.
Presented by
La MaMa ECT in association with En Garde Arts
Written by
Caitlin George
Directed by
Violeta Picayo
Performed by
Grace Bernardo, Melissa Coleman-Reed, Lanxing Fu, Jackie Rivera, Constance Strickland, Jonathan Taikina Taylor, and Jessica Frey
Dramaturg/Line Producer
Megan Carter
Set & Costume Designer
James Schuette
Lighting Designer
Jackie Fox
Co-Lighting Designer
Connor Sale
Sound Designer
Darron L. West
Production Stage Manager
Caroline Englander
Assistant Stage Manager
Alison Greene
Production Manager
Gabriela Gutierrez
With top-speed language, irreverent humor and dynamic physicality, Helen. is a story you know told in a way that you don’t. A wild adventure of paths crossing – of mothers and myths and memories and monsters – Caitlin George’s new play takes you on a journey whose experience is greater than the sum of its parts. Helen. invites you to leap into the unknown, and revel in the unexpected.
In a world of tightly-bound conventions, the god of chaos watches three sisters talk about laundry, grout maintenance, and family planning as they wait for their mother’s wake to end, or a wedding to begin. Chaos undoes a button and Helen, the youngest sister, tears loose from the constrictions of home, husbands, and obligations to seek adventure. Again and again, we see Helen grasp at opportunities only to be flung back through time to where she started. As the time loops, accumulates, and bursts, Helen is sent spiraling, banished from home, past the point of no return. A funny, feminist riff on a familiar myth, Helen. excavates our mothers from history and asks what the future holds for our daughters.































