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POSTED 6/2/2023

Nora Daly presents a heartbreaking and deeply vulnerable multimedia peice capturing the essence of what it means to be a perfectly imperfect human doing the best we can. Nora explores mental health through the unique perspective of her personal experience, nostalgic music, family photos, and a bit of audience participation. Nora brings us into her world and asks us to bare witness and leaves us all feeling a little less alone.

submitted by: Lindsey Jade Higgins, PF23 Independent Review Team

POSTED 6/5/2023

Nora Daly steps on stage in “Do They Take Song Requests in the Void?” wearing a rainbow-checked clown outfit and invoking The Fool card from tarot: unlimited potential, the start of a journey into the unknown. The juggling we witness is of Daly’s inner facets of self and mental health coping strategies, illustrated with heartfelt vulnerability and creativity through video projection, audio, a dance break, a sing-a-long that this Gen X reviewer was more than happy to join, and more. I particularly loved Daly’s use of pre-recorded video to have a conversation with their own “delusion self,” and a later bit in which an image of an illuminated window taken from within a dark room serves as the focus for a cultural update. An invitation to stay in — or rejoin — the world, perhaps? I’d be curious to see how Daly’s mindfulness meditation might work as a piece of invited audience participation, since I suspect I was not the only one instinctually breathing along with them to the recorded voice. Whether or not the Void takes song requests, we each step into that unknown when we allow others to know our struggle and connect with us, and Daly does so beautifully.

submitted by: Amanda Painter, PF23 Independent Review Team