ONE FLEA SPARE
DIRECTED BY | Gisela Cardenes
WRITTEN BY | Naomi Wallace
COSTUME DESIGN | Aleah Shockley
SET DESIGN | Maruti Evans
SOUND DESIGN | Broken Chord
LIGHTING DESIGN | Yuki Nakase Link
STAGE MANAGEMENT | Kathryn Chevren
INTAMACY CO-ORDINATOR | Alexandra Haddad
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGEMENT | Grace Batesi
An audience favorite because of her lovable charm and mischievous nature, Morse had our jaws on the floor when she, a 12-year-old character, walked Bunce and Darcy Snelgrave through a thoroughly intimate exercise in what we will only refer to here as a consensual adult activity all while Mr. Snelgrave was blindfolded and tied to a chair in the same room. Explaining how she, a mere tot, knew such lude information, she said, very nonchalantly, that she had been schooled through keyholes. Needless to say, we understood and appreciated this reference, and actress Kiana Mottahedan perfectly embodied the proud sexual knowledge of a tween.
“Standouts Abigail Duclos, BC ’23, as Darcy Snelgrave and Kiana Mottahedan, CC ’26, as Morse both are able breathe life into the sometimes stiffly written dialogue, and it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role. After the show, murmurs went around the audience, in disbelief that Mottahedan, with her small stature and voice, was not really a 12-year-old girl. She does a masterful job of balancing Morse’s innocence with the disturbing scenes she is placed in: her open facial expressions never quite let the audience forget she is a child, even when she is being sexualized by a grown man or directing Darcy and Bunce’s intimate moments.”