Alumna Marike Splint ’07 creates and directs You Are Here - a homebound travelogue as a part of the Digital Without Walls (WOW) series at La Jolla Playhouse. This innovative digital theatre experience marks Splint’s return to the WOW festival, following Among Us, and audio theatre experience that was presented in WOW’s 2017 festival.
Splint invites patrons on a road trip around the world via Google Earth. Filmed with a live Zoom audience as part of the piece’s development, You Are Here delivers a stirring, documentary-style production that reinvents how we meet each other and how we gather. This visual experience takes audiences down the forgotten roads of personal geographies, the back alleys of memory, and highways to long desired places. Splint calls You Are Here a meditation on what home is.
Marike Splint is a Dutch French-Tunisian theater maker specializing in site-responsive work that explores the relationship between people, places and identity. She has created performances in sites ranging from a bus driving through the streets of a city, to wide open meadows, taxicabs, train stations, beach piers and subways. Her work has been presented at La Jolla Playhouse, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, and Skirball Cultural Center. Her work has been presented internationally in The Netherlands, Germany, Georgia, and Morocco. She received a BA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. Splint is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and was nominated as a finalist for the 2019 Center Theater Group Sherwood Award. Splint is a Theatre faculty member at UCLA.
You Are Here - a homebound travelogue played the Digital Without Walls series in August of 2020. It is now available online.
