Visions of Mortality

Teddy Chow ’17, center, and Glenna Yu ’16 in a scene from “The Last Boat,” an immersive theater experience created by students as part of a spring Atelier course. Audience members walked through a dreamlike space filled with characters confronting mortality with nostalgia, regret, science, and religion. Graphic novelist Kevin Pyle and choreographer Jennine Willett led the course, titled “Waking the Dead.” The show presented the idea of three deaths, said Tori Rinker ’16: “The first is when your soul leaves, the second is when your body is buried or burned, and the third is when your name is forgotten.”