HEIDI REBECCA CELESTE KRAAY
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One Person Shows

Monologues and Solo Experiments

DRASTIC DRAGON STATION

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Photo by Kate Grosswiler, 2014.
Request Script
Tiny Monologue Play. 1M.
3-7 Minutes

A monster kept as a prisoner of war in a woman's brain is tortured as her constant creating drowns him with ink, but this overworking ends up turning the tables.

Readings:

KINDLING Fundraiser
The Cabin

2015, Boise, ID

California Institute of Integral Studies
2015 San Francisco​, CA

SCAR DATES

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Making visuals to create the narrative, 2014.
Request Audio/Instructions
Performance art piece. 1W.
10 Minutes

A movement piece depending on audio recorded narration, outlining body scars over time and their history as a way to let go of them.

Showing: 

California Institute of Integral Studies,
2014, 
San Francisco​, CA​


​CARNY VEIL 

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At 4Q Gallery, Photo by Allan Ansell, 2010.
Request Script
Short monologue play. 1 W. 
15 Minutes

In this elaborate blast of narrative and movement, a woman’s life unravels in order for her to find peace. After a year of romantic misadventures, disasters and loss with a ragtag carnival crew, coming close to death is the only thing that saves her. 

Performances:

Treefort Music Fest
Sesquishop and The Modern Outside,
2013, 
Boise, ID

First Thursday
4Q Gallery
2010, ​Boise, ID


Publication:

Death Rattle Zine

FACELESS

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Photo by Dan Allers, 2012.
Request Script
Tiny Monologue Play. 1W.
2-5 Minutes

A headless woman who lost her face looks for it everywhere.

Reading:

California Institute of Integral Studies
2015, ​San Francisco, CA



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SURVIVORS

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For Collapse Theater, Photo by Sherilyn Orr, 2011.
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Short monologue play. 1W.
15 Minutes

In this movement-centralized piece depending on audio narrative, Dani finds a shelter when the earth and all its animals, plants and elements fight back to regain balance lost when humans were in control. After reinforcing her safe location, though, her refuge becomes her cell as she waits out the destruction above ground. 

Reading:

theBOISEAN Launch Party
Hyde Park Books
​2012, Boise, ID


Production:

Collapse Theater, F*** the Earth Night
​Visual Arts Collective
2011, Boise, ID

Publication:

theBOISEAN
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​MERE ENDING

Picture
Photo by Dan Allers, 2012.
Request Text/Instructions
Performance Art Piece. 1 W/1M.
15 Minutes

Here is a nightmare-turned-triumph using repetition, piles of paper, notebooks, scripts, reference books, pens, a kitchen timer, a typewriter, a trashcan and a mirror that simulates the last sleepless hours before a deadline as a writer struggles with Dorothy, her collaborator in the mirror to create a masterpiece. 

Performance:

Incidentally, Yours
Gallery Alexa Rose
​2009, Boise, ID





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