DIRECTION

Polaroid Stories

by Naomi Iizuka, April 2015

Queer, mythic, historical, and poetic, Polaroid Stories combines

nearly all the elements Hartman looks for in a play. Based on interviews collected by Iizuka from "street kids" living in mid-90s Minneapolis, the play brings Ovid's "Metamorphoses" into a world of sex work, drug abuse, punk music, first loves, and catastrophic loss.