ERIN LEDDY (Hand2Mouth Theatre): My Mind Is Like An Open Meadow

Hand2Mouth and Erin Leddy return to Seattle with the full version of "My Mind Is Like An Open Meadow," the show that played at the Northwest New Works Festival in 2010 and recently won five Portland Drammy awards including Outstanding Production of 2010‐11.

In 2001, Hand2Mouth ensemble member Erin Leddy lived with her grandmother for a year and recorded her memoirs. These tapes form the bones for this solo performance, a meditation on consciousness, memory and things passed down through generations. "My Mind Is Like An Open Meadow" exists in a strange control station of the mind where stories, songs and dances appear and vanish, conveying the inner life of both Erin and her grandmother.

"My Mind Is like An Open Meadow" is directed by Hand2Mouth Artistic Director Jonathan Walters. Together Walters, Leddy and collaborators Chris Kuhl, Ash Black Bufflo, Holcombe Waller and Jane Paik craft a sonic and visual world where memory overcomes the live performance and the two realms begin to blur into an elegant mixture of lighting, pre‐recorded voice, music, dance and scenery. 

Seattle audiences might remember Hand2Mouth from our song cycle "Undine," which performed at Theatre Off Jackson in January 2010, our living time capsule "Project X" which set up shop at Bumbershoot in August 2008, and "Repeat After Me, which came to On the Boards in November 2007 and was described by Misha Berson of the Seattle Times as "a wildly exuberant piece that's like a head‐slamming visit to a warped karaoke bar."