Audiences attending the off-Broadway premiere of the play House of Telescopes entered a magical world fashioned collaboratively by three Lehigh theatre faculty and an alumnus of its theatre program.
Directed by Lyam Gabel, assistant professor of theatre, the play explores the journey of Fable, a trans woman, who leaves her home in Colorado and comes to Minneapolis, searching for identity outside the constraints of their history. Pipeline Theatre’s production at ART NY Theatre in April offered an immersive world featuring set design by Lehigh scenic design professor Mellie Katakalos, projections by media design professor Joseph Amodei, and props designed by Travis Martinez ’21.
In a 2018 interview on Pipeline Theatre’s website, House of Telescopes playwright Kairos Looney said, “I initially set out to write an impossible play wherein magic is a metaphor for the queer experience.” Bringing that metaphor to life was a guiding principle for Gabel, Katakalos, Amodei, and Martinez.
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