Kefa Johnson
The narrative of how the subversive theater group Vernal & Sere, based in Atlanta, came to bring an original work, Hurricane Season, to New York City’s Theatre Row this summer (Aug. 23–Sept. 7) has a full dramatic arc, just like any good tale of revenge and payback.
It all started with a different production ten years ago, when Sawyer Estes and Erin Boswell, who are now married in real life and are artists, were barely out of college and attempting their hand at the Off-Broadway scene.
With regret, Estes reminisces about his attempt to perform a piece he had written, a chronicle of his small-town Texas oil family that he dubbed “Ionesco does There Will Be Blood.”
