Lizardly

Lizardly is a live, mixed reality play created by Kat Mustatea and Heidi Boisvert that explores AI, environmental collapse, and interspeciality.

Vincent and Rebecca’s marriage is falling apart as they brace for an oncoming hurricane—and if that’s not bad enough, they are also turning into lizards. Set in post-anthropocene Miami, the drama unfolds in the aftermath of various ecological cataclysms: rising oceans, aggressive mold, bio-engineered flora that conduct electrical current. Humans have not been wiped out, so much as they have adapted to rapid environmental shifts by mutating into lizards. Vincent and Rebecca have no choice but to weather the storm inside their smart-home, a technological remnant named June whose functions (and malfunctions) they weaponize in an escalating domestic turf war.

The staging employs VR, MoCap and Machine Learning to create a vivid portrayal of hybrid humans in a posthuman world. Lizardly premiered at MAXLive 2021: The Neuroverse, co-produced by New York Live Arts.

Duration: 25 minutes - Cast: 2 main performers, 1 supporting

Lizardly was named among the Digital Dozen Breakthrough in Storytelling Awards from Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab, 2022