In Which _______ and Others Discover the End
Emerging from a densely layered collaboration between performers, audience, visual environment, and sound, In Which _______ and Others Discover the End grapples with the current generation's collective, unconscious anxiety that the world may in the foreseeable future be uninhabitable for humans. Taking inspiration from scientific discoveries (the identification of a new knee ligament, a new class of mathematical shape, the previously unknown mating spot of the blue whale) that are continually updating what we think we know, In Which asks us to acknowledge that we live in a world of uncertainty through an expansive rumination on the ways we embody polarity, mystery, mortality, discovery, and change.
is a collaboration between performance collective SuperGroup and experimental playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski. This publication includes illustrations of the original performance, music notation, and a foreword by Lara D. Nielsen.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her projects have been developed and/or presented by Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Playwrights' Center, Hair+Nails Gallery, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, MASS MoCA, and ICA/Boston, among others. Published works include In Which _______ and Others Discover the End, a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse); encyclopedia (Spout Press); Amber (in I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays from the Los Angeles Underground, Padua Playwrights); and, forthcoming, MERONYMY (53rd State Press). Rachel is a 2023-24 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fellow and a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.
SuperGroup is the Minneapolis-based performance collaboration of Erin Search-Wells, Sam Johnson, and Jeffrey Wells. Since forming in 2007, SuperGroup has created a variety of performance work, including full-evening dance / theater pieces, durational encounters in public spaces, and short queer cabaret performances across the Twin Cities and nationally. SuperGroup’s work has been supported through commissions from the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, and the Southern Theater, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. They received a McKnight Choreography Fellowship in 2017. As independent artists, the three members of SuperGroup perform, write, direct, choreograph, teach, and design in many performance permutations.
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