Two people embrace on a dark stage, sitting on the floor, with one person's arms around the other's shoulders and heads touching.
A young girl with brown hair tied in a braid, smiling and wearing a light-colored bandana around her neck, looking towards a speaker on a dark stage, with a green curtain in the background.
Two young women sitting on a stage with a black background, engaged in a conversation. One has curly hair, glasses, and is wearing a beige shirt and beige pants. The other has straight hair in a braid, a scarf around her neck, and is wearing a black
Two women are performing a theatrical scene on stage, with one woman sitting and the other standing behind her; audience members are seated in the background, and laundry is hanging on a line behind them.
A woman with curly hair and glasses is looking to her left with a slight smile, wearing a cream-colored top and a black choker necklace.

Uninhabitable Home

A 10-Minute Play | New Work

Northwestern University, Vertigo Productions
Directed by Alexander Lopez
Written by Grace Valaskovic

Winter 2024

  • Written by Grace Valaskovic

    Uninhabitable Home is a short play for young audiences about climate change and grief. Clara, who lives in Kansas at the height of the dust bowl, is struggling with her father's decision to move their family to California because of the drought. Conversely, Shirley is an alien whose home planet flooded--- for her the dust bowl is a healthy climate. The two share a moment of mutual understanding in the eye of the (dust) storm.

Rehearsal Room
Stage Manager | Juliana Fukui
Fight Director | Sydney MacGilvray
Dramaturg | Casey Bond

Cast
Clara | Mia El-Yafi
Shirley | Lou Stockmeyer

Production Team
Producers | Lux Vargas, Santina Juma, and Maddi Anderson
Scenic Designers | Gabby Gutierrez and Lucy Winzenried
Lighting Designer | Ellie Caro
Costume Designer | Skylark Zhang
Hair/Makeup Designer | Sarah Carley
Sound Designer | Ryan Cooke
Props Designer | Siri Anderson