"It’s the first rule of weeding, isn’t it? Pull the root. If you don’t get the root, you might as well have never started in the first place"

Honey brings her four siblings home to help them dig up what they buried a decade before- the body of their dead brother. Lying six feet under the fields they tended to and weeded their whole lives, Jacob has woken up below the ground and called out to them to find him so he can fill the cracks that formed between them when he died. As their shovels hit the ground, the truth creeps back into their fingertips from the dirt and threatens to swallow them all.

Performed in an intimate outdoor venue, this production embodies GLTC’s value of adapting form to content; we uplift this story of loss, memory and the intimacy of family through immersive storytelling in a Bed Stuy backyard.

Written by: Max Mooney

Directed by: Haley Fragen

Stage Management: Dinah Rokhinson

Scenic/Props Design: Jonathan Schatzberg

Lighting Design: Persephone Squires

Sound Design: Tommy Lynch

Promotional Pictures: Matthew Szucs

Honey: Chloe Mutebi

Noel: Ben Hefter

Sybil: Mia Walsh Corbett

Red: Sophia Drapeau

River: Julian Hermano