The Hands That Feed You

The Hands that Feed You is at CounterPulse October 6, 8, 13, & 15

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Oh Emm GEEEE! I cannot believe we are four days out from the premiere of this show! As we speak my tiny apartment is full to the brim with giant hands, enormous lips, a thousand sticky notes, a white board the size of my small studio room, and so. many. ideas.

When I work, it is often sort of…gestational. Real plan and think and ponder and mull and discuss then DEPLOY. Every project is a group project and I am over here, mad dash finishing things for load-in on Wednesday just so very touched by the love my people have shown me in producing this show.

Which is fitting – the show is all about how we feel about the end of the world. Which end? All of them. The one we’re in now, the one that began in 1492, all the ones that are coming. There’s so many to choose from, how’s a girl to pick? Through them all, my prayer is for those we lost and for the nurturers – for those of us who not only continue, for now, through it all, and who remind us every day that all we have is each other.

Speaking of which, I’ve been doing my best to make this covid-safer for us all and I’m hoping hoping hoping you help out if you come. I am way outside my comfort zone with a room of 100 people and I’m the one unmasked, so I’ve asked everyone to wear a good-fitting N95 or KN95 with no vent for the full duration of the show. I have replaced the CounterPulse HVAC filters with MERV13s which filter airborne virus. I will also bring in a big homemade filter made of MPR 1500 filters and a box fan for the edge of the stage. I know a few people coming who need to take extra covid precautions, and for them (and you if you need it) we will have a couple of seats on the bird’s nest section of the theater, farther from the rest of the crowd and with my small home HEPA filter near them.

I have been stressing over here trying to make so very sure we can get into the meat of the horrors of tomorrow and the biggest challenge feels like getting us to actually feel it. We’re so accustomed to shock after shock that it’s hard to ease the numbness and check in with what we expect and what we hope and what we fear.

Annieway, welcome to my late-night musings on show week as I take a break from upholstering the 48X life size lips with red satin. I can’t wait to see you at the show!!!

(shout out to Erica Nix, sharing the photo with me up above. Erica was the stellar warm-up act during the test run of this show waaaay back in February of 2020 at The Vortex theater in Austin, Texas.)

Pictured: Annie Danger and Erica Nix. Photo by Matt Bradford, design by Annie Danger

Alt Text: Photo of Annie Danger with slicked-back hair dressed in a red suit, screaming, and Erica Nix with curly, long red hair, also screaming. Behind them is a giant mouth and in between them is the multicolored title of the show.