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Helen. is the story of three sisters: one who thrives in the humdrum, one who wishes she would and one who leaves in search of something else.

The play begins with three sisters bound in the home space, the god of Discord hovering above them, waiting for something. Then, one of them loses a button. It’s a little thing, but it opens an opportunity for the unexpected. Helen leaves her home, her husband and her daughter behind to set out on a journey.

Helen. aims to contextualize marginalization of women, in history and myth. Looking back at these figures, we encounter a tension between what we want these icons to be and what actions they are allowed by their time. Our options are to reimagine them, faults glossed over, or to engage directly with the realities of their circumstance. Thus, excavating what we can from their successes and learning from their limitations.  ​

In this play, Helen asks her own questions, alongside the questions of those who’ve inherited her story. As Laurel Thatcher-Ulrich says in her book Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, the goal is “not to lament their oppression, but to give them a history.”   

Helen. excavates the stories of three mythic women, whose identities are most often painted from male perspectives. La MaMa in association with En Garde Arts present The SuperGeographics' world premiere by Caitlin George.