Summer Session Two
Session - 1: June 25th - July 14th
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Barbara Blatner, a playwright, poet, and musician from Manhattan who writes language-charged scripts about marginal and disenfranchised women and girls. Blatner will be revising a new full-length play, CAGE, about a thirteen-year-old girl who brings home a wild snake, provoking her emotionally distant mother and exploring themes of human-nonhuman relationships and climate emergencies.
Barbara Blatner
I am a playwright-poet-musician from Manhattan who writes language-charged scripts. My plays begin with the micro-politics of relationships and expand to social-political dimensions. I often write about women and girls who are marginal and disenfranchised and must fight hard for themselves. I will be working on revising my new full-length play, CAGE, about a thirteen-year-old girl who brings home a wild snake as a pet and provokes her emotionally distant mother. The play asks who we are in relationship to non-human species, looks through the angst of a lonely young teen who feels she has no future because of the climate emergency and desperately seeks her mother's love.
Affiliation: Vassar