INTERVIEW: Kat McCormack on What's Coming Up at Alderney Landing for EFT's Stages Fest

“I’m invested in the audience experience,” says McCormack about the festival as a whole, “and what kind of a leap [folks] are making as artists to tell a story in a new way. I’m really leaning into non-traditional work, and work that’s gently participatory, and work that is playful or challenging in some way- leaning beyond a traditional theatre piece. I’m really excited by things that are high tech or handmade, but lean into another genre. With Shortcuts, Manual, and Epidermis Circus, you are literally in most cases seeing the handmade happen right in front of you, but through a lens of a larger scale. Then 2021 is so exceptionally experimental, and the story is so interesting; it’s deeply personal through this kind of larger than life scale that brings you into it. I’m really curious about seeing work that is affected by the audience… [where] truly the experience is different every night based on the people of our community who were here and how they’re reacting to it… I’ve been really proud of the programming… and this year especially feels really soft… we all need something a little soft. These shows are caring for you, and also asking the questions of how do we care for ourselves and for people we love, even when we deeply disagree with them.” 

Thank you to Amanda Campbell from TWISI Blog for chatting with EFT Artistic Director Kat McCormack!

Read the full interview here!