11 Aug Janvi’s Eye: Archiving Resistance
In her latest play, Buy Nothing, Remember Everything, Mentor Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader presents an urgent exploration of reclaiming agency.
Do we trust ourselves? In love, in work, in our self-knowledge?
And who benefits when we don’t? Who gains from our self-doubt?
When structures crumble around her, and life’s changes try to erase her, making her feel obsolete, a young woman seeks control in her life by relinquishing hers to systems thinking and acting for her: “People trust their pets and their houseplants more than themselves.”
With the unexpected help of her grandmother and friend, she begins to rebuild her identity and sense of place. An unlikely team becomes activists in the digital underground, working to restore libraries of information being destroyed, and they uncover a surprising key to lost history.
Buy Nothing, Remember Everything responds to the timely dilemmas of digital fragility and systemic erasure we’re living in and facing today. It activates us to remember that information and history must be a pivotal source of power if they’re so dangerous. And also, not to underestimate our grandmothers.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re not too late. The next reading of Buy Nothing, Remember Everything returns to the Signature Center’s Linney Theatre on August 15 at 7 PM.
Janvi Sai