At Goodman Theater, a trapeze artist views her life and death from an unexpected vantage point: the ground
Lying motionless inside a CT scanner searching for signs of cancer, Shana Carroll’s brain began to fidget.“I’ve had so many procedures where you’re inside machines, and you just feel like: What science fiction weird thing is going on here?” said Carroll, a writer, director and choreographer.What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, knitted together, from the moments in life when a person is lying flat and looking up at the world? Shana Carroll, a writer, director…
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