Solo Fest 2021 – Featuring Diane Barnes!

It’s nigh time for the 4th Annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, celebrating the work of intrepid solo performers as they harness their immense imaginations to captivate our attention for close to an hour — no small feat for a solitary creative in front of an attentive audience. This year’s festival boasts an impressive roster of personal storytelling, free-wheeling fiction, and docudrama dives into histories public and private.  We encourage you to catch every show at least once for the full experience, but to help you sift through the embarrassment of riches and learn a little more about our creatives, we asked our performers (and writers!) a few questions about their relationships with Solo Performance and PlayGround!

Next up: Diane Barnes (she/her) in her deeply relevant Not One of Us!

PG: Why is Solo Performance important to you?
DB: I enjoy the process of developing my own work, taking the germ of an idea and building it to a performance piece, then inhabiting the characters. I love the freedom to speak my truth, entertain and educate at the same time.

PG: How is the PlayGround Solo Fest helping you reach your artistic goals?
DB: I would love my work to reach a larger audience. Playground is a premier incubator of new work and showcase for developing and emerging playwrights, so thrilled my work is included in this festival.

PG: In one sentence, what should audiences expect from your show?
DB: From Lagos, Nigeria to New Haven, CT people see differences where there are none, a tendency particularly alarming when those people are your doctors.

You have two chances to catch Diane’s show in the Solo Fest: opening weekend 1/23/2021 @ 7PM PT, and closing weekend 2/5/2021 @7PM PT!
Click either date to purchase tickets for that event, and check out the full schedule of performances in this year’s festival!