Directed and produced by Meghan Rose Donnelly, Alexandra D’onofrio, and Laura Sophie Helbig and based on long-term anthropological research from several differing sources, Tiny Human Dramas is a tryptich performance consisting of two ten-minute plays written within twenty four hours of their performance and a third twenty-minute play developed earlier and incorporating prerecorded video elements.
“Whispers of a Past Life” inspired by the work of Dr Maria Kastrinou on reincarnation stories in Druze communities in Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan and featuring performers Harriet Eaton and Jack So is an uncomfortable exploration of psychosexual colonialism depicted by two able young performers.
“Life for Real” inspired by the work of Dr Alexandra D’Onofrio on crossing the Mediterranean and featuring performers Anisa Butt and Chiraz Aich is a slightly less abstract piece but captures a similar existential dread in its hauntingly laconic performance.
“The Most Important Thing” inspired by the work of Dr Gaudenz Metzger on hospice photography in London and featuring Sixth House Theatre performers Dan Willis, Chloe Wade, and Pui-Ka Chang is the most emotionally varied of the three acts and features some comedic gems that are well wanted by this point in what is otherwise an incessantly morbid performance.
Tiny Human Dramas is an interesting project but fails to capture audiences’ full attention in its short snippets of brilliance. More intellectual than theatrical, these plays are puzzlers.
Reviewer: Kira Daniels
Reviewed: 7th August 2025
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