What are the limits of devotion? When a disabled young woman who cannot speak turns eighteen she appears to display the desires of an adult. In trying to interpret the young woman’s feelings, her mother and therapist are forced to face decisions neither of them ever expected to make.
In this world premiere, Katie asks audiences to examine their viewpoints on devotion to family, sexual consent, treatment of the disabled, and the role we want the law to play in enforcing our views on these issues. Toruño’s goal in Katie is to provide audiences with a platform to examine the limits of a community’s devotion to providing a good life to a loved one, and whether in some circumstances that devotion should go beyond social norms, taboos, or even the law.
The relations of a mother to a child, a neighbor to a friend, and a government to its citizens clash in ways that have never been explored onstage.
Part of the Dream Up Festival 2017
