House of American Activities

Produced by the after-image; created, co-written and directed by Kate St. John & Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Performed at Theater for the New City in 2022

Featuring Caroline Burkhart as Richard Arens

House of American Activities is an original dance-theater production about the fears, divisions, and nascent uprising shaping the lives of Americans during the 1950s Red Scare. As government officials, Hollywood stars, and powerless Americans grasp for an alternative ending to a story on repeat, who will survive and who will be left behind?

Photos by Olga Rabetskaya