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A summer camp tucked away in the forest. With the campers in bed, counselors huddle around the campfire, cracking open some beers, roasting s’mores and hashing out their worldviews and vision for the future.
Nature is particularly therapeutic these days in its ability to force us to unplug. The world back home can feel so far away, our problems out of sight and, thus, out of mind.
Until they’re not.
Big Idea Theatre’s “The Grown-Ups” will resonate with anyone spending their work week trapped in a nauseating doom-scroll and their weekend off the grid in Yosemite or Lake Tahoe’s forests. It’s a restyling of the avant-garde 2021 play by Simon Henriques and Skylar Fox that toyed joyfully with mise-en-scène as it wrestled with the complex, raw emotions of that era.
The original production took place at a “secret Brooklyn location” (read: a backyard in Greenpoint) from July to November 2021. Each night’s eight lucky audience members had to file through an apartment to reach the “theater,” which was essentially a firepit where the cast sat among the guests as they performed — often actually making s’mores for the viewers.