Program Notes

• Directed by Eli O’Brien
• Videography and Editing by Alan Cameron
• Costumes and Design Elements by Ayla Taffel

• Featuring—
  Emily Brolin as ‘Harriet Bageheot’
  Caleigh Davis as ‘Representative Bageheot’

Director's Notes
by Eli O’Brien

Can You Hear Their Voices? follows a morning conversation between a rich politician father and his daughter with a much different worldview. The piece doesn’t follow any real-world events for politicians, yet the tone of the argument feels familiar and I immediately identified a dynamic that many audiences would connect with. When the team discussed the piece, we compared it to a political argument at the thanksgiving table. We tried to infuse the same tensions, power imbalances, and frustrations that one might find in a discussion between stubborn members of different generations anywhere.