ABOUT . . .

Blindsided is a one-person show married to a film installation that explores the extreme disproportion between an enormity of content and a minuscule amount of time, proposing that a single moment of trauma can create an instantaneous opening in the psyche for the recollection of a past trauma.

A woman is biking to work when she is hit by a car. The impact that devastates her body also fractures her mind projecting her back to the summer of her tenth year. Large-scale film projections and live performance create a double exposure where the past is immediate, and the present is fast dissolving.

press . . .

Very fine, grave, wistful, powerful work by Sabrina Reeves. Run, don't walk to see it.

-Joyn Doyle, The Globe and Mail, 2014

Blindsided doesn’t so much tell a story as reveal the storied quality of our lives. Not that Reeves abandons dramatic tension or narrative sensibility; she’s just trying to reveal a complex network of interconnected human experiences that can’t be unspooled like a thread, but must be supported everywhere at once. Think of a figure floating up to the surface, until suddenly it’s there and you see it...Reeves steers this dark meditation with a sure hand and ultimately manages to use the weight of her material to reach for the light.

-Mark Mann, Mooney on Theatre, 2014 

Sabrina is a focused, physical performer who adds an electric spark to any performance.

-Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine, 2014