How to Catch Creation
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How To Catch Creation (2020)

By Christina Anderson Directed by Nataki Garrett West Coast Premiere
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The birth of a legacy

Playwright Christina Anderson and director Nataki Garrett—OSF’s artistic director—explore life’s connections and reverberations, sometimes decades in the making, in OSF’s 2019 production of this contemporary play about legacy, life, and love.

Four artists in the Bay Area find their lives unexpectedly intertwined—with each other’s and with the life of a black queer feminist writer from the 1960s—in this story that challenges our definitions of love, family, and what it means to create.

In an interview with Booklist, Anderson explains why she wrote this play: “I feel Black women, specifically, have a history of being erased in terms of their literary contributions in America’s literature. In a lot of ways that’s true for women of color in general, so I think the most important part is to keep these women’s voices alive and active and circulating.”

Video length: Approximately 2 hours, 10 minutes.

Watch How to Catch Creation any time between August 3 and August 28 for just $15. Or buy our 2-show package—this show plus Water by the Spoonful, streaming September 1–25—for $25!

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Cast

Ensemble: Chris Butler*, Christiana Clark*, Safiya Fredericks*, William Thomas Hodgson*, Kimberly Monks*, Greta Oglesby*

* Member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
** AEA Professional Theatre Intern

Creative Team

* Member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
** AEA Professional Theatre Intern

Suitability Suggestions

How to Catch Creation explores sophisticated themes of betrayal, redemption and choices about child bearing and raising in a complex way. There is profanity, but much meaning is also conveyed quietly in the silences between the lines. Best for high school students able to handle the subtleties and complexities of this moving adult story.

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