BRUISED. 2002. THEATER.
:::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::		Bruised is a theater piece realized in collaboration with the Theater Department at Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Ca. Senior students, under the direction of theater director Angela Brown, were asked to create, re-create, interpret and evaluate major issues and concerns of the adolescent experience and the world in which they live (Notes from the Director). The results were a series of monologues in which the students cried out loud issues like homosexuality, teen pregnancy, suicide, gang violence, racism, domestic violence, and the obsessive emphasis on physical appearance imprinted in american society. Some of the monologues were personal experiences the students brought into public view for the first time, making the performance a very intense experience of recognition and acceptance.
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		The set was designed with a series of vertical reflective panels, scattered on the stage and used as props and as projection screens. The panels produced a discontinued, distorted and broken flow on the projected images, as a metaphor of the disconnected nature of the lives depicted by the students.
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