(Theatre, CoHo Theatre, 2016) Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story follows Charlotte, a woman writer who is confined to a single bedroom with a bolted-down bed for three months in 1890 by her husband who is also her doctor as a “rest cure” for her postpartum depression and anxiety. Isolated and under-stimulated, Charlotte turns to an interior world of imagination, obsessing on the room’s ghastly wallpaper until a trapped figure appears to her in the pattern. Is it a hallucination, ghost or animus – a personification of her own trapped psyche? Be immersed in Charlotte’s inner landscape to follow her journey through constraint to creativity and transformation.

Conceptual Design, Production and Performance: Grace Carter

Stageplay Adaptation: Sue Mach

Director: Philip Cuomo

Movement Direction: Paige McKinney

Sound Compositions: Ron Mason Gassaway

Cast: Christy Bigelow, Grace Carter, Chris Harder and Diana Schultz

Promotional Photography: Holly Andres