WorksEventsLibraryProjectsInformation Walt’s Play Featured Project My Town In choreographer and theater director Jack Ferver’s My Town, the small town is a portal that provides special access into questions of self-expression and collective agency. Set loosely in an area of upstate New York, My Town considers the queer experience outside urban metropoles, and the ways physical geography marks the interior terrains of the mind. Ferver has described the project as “exploring the disappearance of the femme,” taking a queer departure from the classic American play Our Town by Thornton Wilder in which the female protagonist Emily passes away. My Town is closely informed by the experience of building an art practice in the dense and intense environment of New York City, and the piece deals also with Ferver’s experience growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, and experiencing early familial tragedy.Moving through tragicomic moments of violence, sexuality, and loss, Ferver balances the work with a playfulness and self-awareness that lifts the work into a surreal register. The fluidity of the work is echoed in the video by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob that frames the work and interacts with Ferver’s performance, enabling one scene to melt into another as if in a dream.Ferver shifts through choreography and theatrical sketches throughout the work. As with many of Ferver’s past projects, My Town focuses heavily on constructing a persona, and also plays at the edge of the fictive and the real.Scenic Design, Music and Video by Jeremy Jacob Upcoming Events Featured Jun 14 Jun 14, 2025 Veronica, Veronica Jun 14, 2025 Jun 14, 2025 Featured Jun 6 Jun 6, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 Episode 415: TBD Jun 6, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 Jun 6, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13 Jun 13, 2025 – Jun 20, 2025 Episode 416: TBD Jun 13, 2025 – Jun 20, 2025 Jun 13, 2025 – Jun 20, 2025 Jun 20 Jun 20, 2025 – Jun 27, 2025 Episode 417: TBD Jun 20, 2025 – Jun 27, 2025 Jun 20, 2025 – Jun 27, 2025 The Library Featured The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
