This Isn't Working is a surreal pseudo-comedy following a listless, unreliable narrator (Donovan himself) who arrives on stage the night of the performance without a clear sense of why he's there, set in an unspecified future where the idea of a "job" has been rendered obsolete. Across the piece, Donovan moves through memories of forgotten…

Jie-Hung Connie Shiau's Toad Mountain draws on Taiwanese folklore to explore the hidden interior spaces where we store memory, silence, instinct, and grief, the pieces of ourselves we preserve, protect, or abandon in the name of self-preservation, some by conscious choice and others slowly, invisibly, over time. Folklore has long served as a vessel for…