2019 Innovators- Liar Liar
For over a hundred years, San Francisco has been known as a center of artistic creativity and innovation. More recently, the City has also become known as the center for technological innovation and progress. 3Girls Theatre’s Innovators Series is an exciting program that is creating opportunities to connect the innovators of the art communities with the innovators of the tech communities.
Liar Liar, founded by Akaina Ghosh, Madison Wetzell, and Jacob Ritts, reinterprets Classical narratives through feminist lenses. Utilizing physical, immersive, and interactive theater practices, Liar Liar explores unconventional methods of storytelling that re-center feminine voices and revolutionize the theatrical experience. Liar Liar’s first production, The Bacchae: For Madwomen Only, translated and adapted from Euripides’ play by Wetzell and directed by Ghosh, debuted in Tilden Park during the Summer of 2017.
Liar Liar’s Two Coins for the Ferryman sends six audience members on a quest through the Greek underworld. Each audience member embodies a hero from Greek mythology, each with their own task to complete. The audience-members-turned-heroes negotiate a transporting immersive space guided by a rich cast of underworld characters. With a mix of traditional storytelling, physical theater, and immersive spatial puzzles, this play tells six unique stories of life and death, love, loss, black magic, and overcoming the impossible.
