Exploring the Sources

Exploring the Sources is an immersive theatre dream, guided by the whimsically strange world of Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo. You’re invited to travel together through a mysterious yet familiar space. We’re inside a Victorian mansion, but there seem to be parts of nature growing through the floorboards. Enigmatic figures perform absurd rituals, and a miniature waterway winds through the rooms. Isn’t it bizarre that we’re all here together—in this exact, unlikely, shared time and place? Can we ever possibly understand each other when our origins and journeys are so different?

Work-in-progress presentation in March 2024, at the Urbane Arts Club in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

Created and Directed by Emerie Snyder,

and developed in collaboration with:

Performers – Maira Duarte, Frankie Placidi, Ema Zivkovic

Scenic Design – Dan Daly

Sound Design – Carsen Joenk

Costumes – Camilla Dely

Lighting Consultant – Daisy Long

Voice Performer – Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez

Creative Producer – Bryn Herdrich

Stage Manager – Carson Robles

Emerie Snyder is a 2023-2024 Audrey Resident at New Georges, and Exploring the Sources is being developed in the residency program.