Bears, bears, bears

Student Presenter(s)

Matthew Blankley

Abstract or Description

Bears, bears, bears, a 60-minute stage adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, explores the nature of empathy in an age of self-involvement. When a paleontologist-turned-au-pair switches bodies with his host family, he must juggle their dysfunctional lives while securing a “Proof of Reliability”—or risk his own future. In this workshop production, the audience will watch as Mitchell (the evening’s Goldilocks) attempts to secure a ‘Proof of Reliability,’ the essential document to his alternative, empathy driven study of dinosaurs, while he switches bodies with a family of three, lifestyles he had never been able to empathize with. Through multimedia storytelling depicting on-stage video calls and digital footprints combined with dinosaur puppetry, Bears, bears, bears comedically examines how constant digital connection impacts our ability to empathize, all while painting a surreal portrait of modern family dynamics through a classic fairytale. 

Mentor

TJ Young