Heading into Night, a play directed and co-devised by PMA Associate Professor Beth F. Milles has received a glowing review during its stop at the Durham Fringe Festival. The project is co-devised and performed by renowned Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, and is currently on tour in Europe. Several PMA alums are performing with Passer, including Chandler Waggoner ’15 in Durham and Tess Lovell ’25 in Edinburgh. Taylor Bazos ’23, the Assistant Director for the Los Angeles production will produce the play.
“Heading Into Night is really something special – that stands alone in time,” writes Natasha Higdon for Fringe Review. “The performer – Daniel Passer – and director – Beth F. Milles, are true heroes for creating such a unique empathetic piece of work that will be talked about for years to come – relatable, moving and surprisingly hopeful. I don’t have enough words and after watching this show, others too failed to place where they had seen such storytelling like this before – the amalgamation of the subject matter and using a visceral clown as the driving force was a stroke of genius- to cover the ‘art’ of forgetting.”
