Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting

CB sees life through a lens: the camera. CB experiences life – a shifting, repeating fractal that nobody else seems to see – through the lens of their mind. A quick, loving, nonbinary filmmaker with synesthesia, CB follows their parents around the house, documenting them in the pursuit of understanding them. Meanwhile, CB’s parents struggle to love, learn, and support CB in the exploration of their dreams. All the while, the memory of a tornado looms in the distance of a Kansas landscape. This play centers around an autistic teenager (flashing between the ages of 11 and 19) seeking to know and be known.

Sponsored by:
Mina Goodrich & Lawrence Dean  •  David & Suzanne Alexander

This CATF production is supported, in part, by a grant from The Venturous Theater Fund of The Tides Foundation.