By Max Yu
Directed by Rebby Yuer Foster

Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm
​Sundays at 5:00pm
Shows begin promptly at 7:30pm & 5:00pm. No late seating.
*Recommended for ages 16 up
​Running time: 90 minutes (no intermission)

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“My phone is just a tool
it is just a tool 
to illuminate the world i dream of”

In A Different Reality She’s Clawing At The Walls​ is a play about human isolation within a vast virtual reality. The psychological repercussions of digital surveillance is explored through an ensemble whose codependency on technology brings them to the tipping point. Witness the sisyphean search for the unplugged mind, driven by the agony of technological isolation.

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What People are saying

This is the directorial debut of a full-length production for Rebby Yuer Foster, Shaking the Tree’s Associate Artistic Director. In every sense, Foster has created a true Shaking the Tree production: multilayered, symbolic, deeply disturbing, and often funny. The show demands a lot from the actors, both physically and emotionally, and they are all well up to the task. I especially loved Fagan’s work as the physical manifestation of technology. Griffin Kiyoshi DeWitt’s lighting design is excellent.
-Krista Garver, Broadway World
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About the Playwright

Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He recently moved from Shanghai and is now based in New York. His play NIGHTWATCH won the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected for the 2022 O’Neill Playwriting Conference. He is a current member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He was a member of Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group. He is currently under commission from New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA), Atlantic Theater Company, Shaking the Tree Theater. His plays that have been workshopped and developed include NIGHTWATCH (O'Neill, Goodman Theatre), DISTANCE ABANDONED (Second Generation Productions), DRAGONFLY (American Playwriting Foundation), THE EDGE (Shaking the Tree Theater), and LITTLE RED (Horizon Theatre). He has taught playwriting at the National Theater Institute. His poetry and prose have been published in China in Spittoon and Babel. He is represented by United Talent Agency (UTA) and 3 Arts Entertainment. He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied playwriting under Sylvan Oswald. You can find him at @maxyuliang and www.maxyu.carrd.co

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The Ensemble

Kiana Malu 

Akitora Ishii

Heath Hyun Houghton

Alanna Fagan

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Creative Team

Director: Rebby Yuer Foster
Playwright: Max Yu
Stage Manager: Ped Dominguez
Assistant Stage Manager: Orlando Reyes Cabrera
Dramaturg: Emily Hogan
Composer: Lake 
Director of Photography & Video Editor: Skye Richter
Video Production Assistant: Marcel Mawulorm Johansen 
Choreographer: Claire Aldridge
Set Designer: Samantha Van Der Merwe
Costume Designer: Wendi YuLing
Lighting Designer: Griffin Kiyoshi DeWitt
Audio & Video Engineer: Jared Jonas
Technical Director: Ree Seminole 
Scenic Painter​: Alex Meyer
Box Office Manager: Kai Hynes
Graphic Design: Andrew Palomo 

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In A Different Reality She's Clawing At The Walls is generously supported by our major donors; Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas, Anonymous, and Ellyn Bye. 
We'd also like to thank the foundations listed below, members of Shaking the Tree's Board, as well as many other individual supporters. To support this show, or any others in our season, please visit our SUPPORT page.