Yellow/Blue Play: A New CalArts Student-Created Play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival This June
June 10, 2022Posted on June 2, 2022
Among the productions included at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival is Jeannette Srinivasan’s (Theater BFA 23) Yellow/Blue Play, an original play about a surviving twin’s experience with grief, memory, and the colors of her childhood.
A recipient of the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship, Srinivasan has crafted a play that is an ode to mental health awareness as it follows the aftermath of the traumatic loss of a twin sister. The surviving twin struggles through the journey of forgetting her sister’s name and being forced to watch memories from home videos in order to remember again. (Although the play is set in present day, many of the events took place in the early 2000s.)
The cast includes Shireen Heidari (Theater BFA 24), Justine Gorry (Theater BFA 24), and Olivia Ross (Theater BFA 24). Yellow/Blue Play’s creative team also includes Srinivasan as director, writer, sound designer, costume designer, and set designer, and Kenzie Caulfield (Thea
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“Wish we could go back- voluntarily. Pick what we wanna re-experience, because I certainly have forgotten some of those conversations, like this one.”
As one of the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s Scholarship Winners for 2022, yellow/blue opened at the California Institute of the Arts on March 10th, (after a year-long delay due to COVID) to rave reviews. Featuring the colors yellow, blue, and green, a story of loss and fading childhood memories encapsulates the stage as (Twin-less) Identical Twin “Yellow Girl” (Justine Gorry) rewinds her brain back to a time where the seriousness of life was hidden and instead joy took reign.
We find “Yellow Girl” in the attic of her childhood home, accompanied by a dusty toy chest and a yellow camcorder set on a tripod ready to replay some mental souvenirs. The memories are “awakened” when “Yellow Girl” holds up an object from her past up to the camcorder. A scene commences with two younger versions of her and her siste
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