Well, almost … Katie Pearl, the daughter of the library world’s most famous action figure, Nancy Pearl, in collaboration with performance partner Lisa D’Amour and Emily Johnson, is staging a work called “Terrible things” which promises to take the audience “inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom”.
Terrible things
Terrible things forms part of a series running at New York’s Performance Space 122 which seeks to explore “the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as a mode of articulating scientific theory and expressing our human experience of the laws and mysteries of the physical universe.” Terrible things does this by “exploring the multiverse though personal narrative, particle physics, and a shifting “set” of 600 marshmallows that stand in for particles, potential energy, and the sub-atomic realm.” Take a sneak peek.
