In "Tent Worms"" the long-married Foxworths are ending their yearly summer retreat "on the Cape". The wife Clara has kept a secret for some time about her husband Billy's fatal illness, believing she had "information to which he did not have access". But in no way an invalid, Billy works feverishly to rid the garden of tent worms (scientifically, canker caterpillars) that build "great sagging canopies of transparent gray tissue among the thickly grown berry trees that surrounded their summer cottage". To combat these worms, Billy lights torches made out of newspaper and fires the trees, releasing "poisonous vapors" that make Clara sick. As an anecdote to her despair, she dreams of the upcoming winter when Billy will be gone and, in her "fantasies", can dress "in black furs"" be wooed by "various escorts".

"Tent Worms" interrogates how the human heart can die and then be reborn through loss, all in a single day. The story follows the course of the day from sun to moon, reflecting the decline of the Foxworths's marriage and Billy's life in particular.

Like the waning day, the landscape mirrors the couple's psychological traumas, too. As in his later works, Williams personifies place as a human text/space/body. In fact, the terrain of "Tent Worms" symbolically represents the human body and heart significantly. 

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Digital theater 

Length: 30 min.

Aimed at people from the age of 16

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Función

15 de agosto de 2020

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LIVE STREAMING - ZOOM​

Ciudad de México

​México