Toot’s work is driven by a core belief in the significance of our incoherence within a world that tries to make us understandable. The theatre is the perfect place to find breathing room in how people do not live up to expectations. Historically, theatre has been about showing up and trying to understand each other through characters, storytelling, and aesthetics. For Toot, it’s loaded with opportunities to redirect these dynamics towards the edge of articulation where we can challenge our understandings of what a person could be, what an event could be, what a sensation could be.

Toot’s shows ask a two-sided question about conventions: how do conventions originate and how can we undermine their authority? Also: How are we influenced? Why do we behave this way, and isn’t it funny? Why do we think we understand what someone else is doing? How have artists and audiences contained, understood, and classified behavior within the theatre and outside of it?

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Photos for Tweezer Burn and Ploys… by Zoe Cinel.