Wednesday, April 2, 2025

What the Moon Saw, or I Only Appear to Be Dead
Syracuse University Drama Department
Danyon Davis, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A fantastical collage of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales told through a post-9/11 lens, by Stephanie Fleishman. Traveling to Shanghai to celebrate his 200th birthday, Andersen encounters mermaids, a street urchin, a supermodel, teenagers in love, a cabdriver, firemen, and husks of humans who appear as ghouls in this "kaleidoscopic meditation on how we move through calamity" inspired by Andersen's fragile, timeless tales.