Nightswimming is deep in the process of adapting Ken’s novel into a theatrical piece, with a text crafted by Brian and contributions of artists who have participated in readings and workshops. In the terrifying climax of the story the wasps invade the home and only Stevie can protect the baby, bringing the theatrical adaptation to a thrilling close in this new version featuring an ensemble of five female performers. Can the wasps help, or are they bringing to life both Stevie’s greatest desire and her greatest fears? Touching on the realities of many young families, the story weaves Stevie’s sense of her outsider status in the family with her compulsions and anxieties and the family’s splintering in the face of a major health crisis. Can the wasps help, or are they bringing to life both Stevie’s greatest desire and her greatest fear? Stevie is drawn into the wasp’s conspiracy to save her brother’s life, but comes to realize, almost too late, what the wasps are actually planning! The Nest is a thriller in which ten-year-old Stevie comes to believe that the wasps in the nest on the side of her family’s home are conspiring to replace her baby brother, who is deeply ill, with a perfect copy they are manufacturing in the nest.
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