About the Show
REVERIE. Or a Daydream. Or to be lost in thought. Or an impractical idea.
14th & L’s latest romp, REVERIE, is a New Works Play Festival with a bit of a twist.
How do we stay present in expiring time? When was the last time you called home? Will people look at you the same once they know who you really are? What are we if not our memories? Do people still care?
These are the makings of REVERIE. Can’t wait to find you in the daydream.
About 14th and L Productions
Before I had words for it, I used to squeeze myself into the tiny space beneath the window of my grandma’s yellow cottage on 14th & L and dream.
There was magic in this seat, I just knew it. This window had survived Galveston’s 1900 storm. These panes had been so salted with the gulf coast air, I could lick them and taste the swell of the bay four blocks away. And every day, the sun exhaled through these frames at the same time.
My grandma had chosen this window for that purpose. She hung a prism here. Aloof and in suspense, the tiny crystalline shape hummed with potential energy until the light made itself known. And then it began. At the same time every day, my favorite seat in my favorite place would erupt in color. There were scatters of rainbows everywhere, fragments of possibility, slivers of awe.
In that place, I realized the call of the artist is that of the prism. Not to create from some place unknown, but to transform the light that is always there and refract a different perspective. Stories are never new, just changed. That’s why we recognize them.
And sitting there, I recognized myself. I too craved hanging in suspense until the right light struck, transforming into something transcendent. Beneath that tiny window on 14th & L, I knew somewhere hard and deep in the bottom of me- I was meant to share this feeling with as many people as I could.
And that’s why I’ve arrived back here at 14th & L. This production company begins in honor of my late grandmother who passed away this May. She was the first person to believe in the worlds I wanted to build. Now I plan to do the same for a new generation of creatives.
So if you’re here, tell us what you know. This is where stories are shared.
- Zoie