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Even now, Donly suggests, there may be a way of living in radical tenderness that will spell a way forward rather than the end of it all.
—Kate Dakota Kremer, CultureBot
Two horses in a neigh-scent relationship, a vacant treehouse in need of a tenant, and a human with a grape for a head. In Corinne Donly's buoyant adaptation of Hieronymus Bosch's fifteenth-century triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, syllables combine to make words and people to make lovers. An elegy to vestiges, a paean to puns, and a theater of peace, Wood Calls Out to Wood pursues Bosch's old paradise through a new alchemy of love, language, and radical tenderness.
In Donly’s theater of gentleness and Bosch’s garden of delight, we are granted a vision of the world in which disagreement is not the harbinger of the end of love but the engine of love’s continuance…Language itself is unfallen in Donly’s flying, freewheeling celebration of the sounds of words, their meanings, their multiplicities, and the way in combination they alchemize into something new altogether.
—Kate Dakota Kremer, CultureBot
A rose of a show…It is so wonderful how this piece can live so peacefully yet have such charged dimensions. The horizon of the ideas here chase the landscape…It is a script of wonder, so wonder with it.
—Aron Canter, StageBuddy
Corinne Donly is a playwright, an educator, and a lover of all things liminal. Their work often attempts to reimagine narrative structure via principles of ecology and play theory. Recent plays include Wood Calls Out to Wood, Orchid Receipt Service, Because of the Mud, and Sentience Structure #1. Donly is a former Trans Lab fellow (co-sponsored by the Public Theater and WP). They hold an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, an MA in Integral Ecology, and a BFA in acting from NYU’S Experimental Theatre Wing.