/nine ways to plead with a god

Written by: Kanika Vaish
Direction: Liz Peterson
PSM: Sage Spitz
Producers: Kanika Vaish + Yining Cao
Lighting design: Josh Martinez-Davis
Set design: Josh Barilla
Costumes: Karen Boyer
Sound: Lucky Bommireddy
Props: Kanika Vaish

Performed by: Sanskar Agarwal, Leyla Beydoun, Mazvita Chanakira, George Copeland, Isaiah Dodo-Williams, Trí Lê, Saskia Naidoo, Sabina Sethi Unni

Performance dates
Lenfest Center for the Arts; New York, NY
July 10th-12th, 2022

︎ SyC Photography

Six tourists and a local climbing guide set out to summit a historically unsurmountable Himalayan mountain believed to be the abode of several Godly presences. As their physical limits, relationships to one another, and perceptions of reality are tested with each meter they climb, they must find a way to achieve their new collective goal: survival.