“Even in this disorienting space, where subjectivity imploded, it was not anxiety or confusion that prevailed but a strange sense of comfort.”
— Pablo José Ramírez, Artforum 🔗
The Mommy Leaks the Floor (2025)
Featuring José Luis Blondet, Michael Bonnabel, Arne Gjelten and Philip Littell
Asher Hartman, Writer and Director
Luna Izpisua Rodriguez, Assistant Director with Pablo, infant and scene stealer
Oliva Mole, Set Design, Opening sculptural costume and Mommy Mummy puppet
Jasmine Orpilla, Sound Design, live music and voice consultant
Chu-Hsuan Chang; Lighting Design
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Costume Design
Dramaturg and special thanks: Naima Lowe
Stage Manager, Dylan Fitzgibbons
Photography, Priyanka Ram, Danielle Neu
Videography and edits by Anna Wittenberg and David Louis Zuckerman
Creatives:
Jasmine Orpilla, Asher Hartman, Luna Izpisua Rodriguez, Olivia Mole, Chu-Hsuan Chang, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Naima Lowe, Dylan Fitzgibbons, Anna Wittenberg
“By refusing to flatten psychic struggle into a mere aesthetic gesture, Hartman brazenly attempts to stage the unstageable. […] Life, as Hartman stages it, is an endless loop of affective drama — hysterical, libidinous, ecstatic, and undetermined”
— Hannah Tishkoff, Artillery 🔗
“This cannot be a play, only a stuttering ceremonial joke.”
— Nancy Popp 🔗
“Jasmine Orpilla is an aural alchemist, enlisting a junk drawer of sonic devices to expand the sparse black box theater into a wormhole.”
— Dorothy Dubrule 🔗
