Playing the Game
"This performance is not something you simply go and see, it's something you experience—moving, hilarious, and deeply profound. All those layers of cultural sludge that clog our sense of self are washed away as Denise shows us a deeper, more human way of seeing. Clear your schedules because you'll be talking about this performance all through the evening and the next morning too."
-Audience Member
"...this is a sticky game friends, lifetimes have been built on this game..."
What's on the other side of the games we play to belong? And what are you willing to give up to get there? In Playing the Game, Denise Casey explores the many games she's played to belong. Like the time she took cover in a monastery to skip out of rehab. In this 60-minute, one-woman play, Denise follows the river back through all the games she’s played to the source. Part memoir, part meditation, part make-believe, Playing the Game is unshaking in its exploration of possibility, courage, and envisioning another way.
Denise Casey is a master storyteller and gifted performer. Playing the Game gives truth to the claim that the more we mine our own experiences of suffering, of insight, and of grace, the more universal our story becomes. Casey stages a performative autobiography that never forgets that - more often than not - we are a mystery even to ourselves.
Katie Gough, dramaturge and Associate Professor of English & Theatre at UVM
Evocative.
Powerful.
Healing.
Audience Member
I left the show feeling calm and inspired and DELIGHTED - to have experienced storytelling, meditation, music, dance and my own personal art drawing in one show... Still thinking about the river and my ancestors.