Seeing the Beast
Creator, Director, Dramaturg, Performer with Lightning Rod Special
Colgate University 2014
H.I.P.P. (Holistic Innovation for a Progressive Planet) welcomes you to “Rewilding Hamilton,” a special presentation by accomplished young author and Colgate University alumnus Randy Tzu. Mr. Tzu will put forward the controversial proposal to reintroduce wolves to the surrounding area as part of a solution to control the overpopulation of white-tailed deer. That is until his Mandarin translator turns into a deer, he himself is transformed into a wolf, and what began as a science talk goes suddenly very wild.
Part fairytale, part nature documentary, and part Brechtian interrogation of the stories we tell about animals, Seeing the Beast was the result of a semester-long residency at Colgate University.
Reviews and Accolades
Colgate University News, “Last weekend, University Theater presented Seeing the Beast, an experimental play that was part TEDtalk, part fairytale, and part nature documentary.”
