The first show is:
VAMPING: Aging, Memory Loss, & End-of-Life Ethics
Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 5:15pm
Great Hall, Trent Semans Center, Duke Medical Center Campus
Eleanor sits in a nursing care facility longing for her home of sixty-three years. As she moves through medical testing and care for Alzheimer's Disease, she attempts to make sense of fractured memories, reckon with her regret, and somehow begin to face her imminent death.
Kāli Quinn has been in residence in the Duke Theater Program as a Movement Designer on Uncle Vanya, Machinal, and Enron. Her two solo shows about grief and intergenerational dialogue have been performed at universities and festivals throughout the country including Brown University Creative Medicine Series, Full Circle Festival of Aging and Los Angeles Women’s Solo Festival. Quinn has performed and taught at numerous theater companies and universities, most recently including MIT, Brown University and Accademia dell’Arte (Arezzo, Italy). In 2016, she completed a national tour of her new book, I Am Compassionate Creativity. See kaliquinn.com (link is external).
Each show will be followed by an audience talk-back and reception. For more information, contact us at trent-center@duke.edu (link sends e-mail) or 919 668-9000.