This Is Water

Award-winning musician and storyteller Rain Perry presents This Is Water, a powerful one-woman musical reckoning with race, privilege, and identity. In response to the social upheaval of 2020-2021, Perry turns inward, using humor, music, and deeply personal storytelling to examine the forces that shaped her worldview. Through childhood memories, family history, and a live soundtrack, she invites audiences into an empathetic space to reflect, question, and engage in a conversation about race in America. Bold yet inviting, This Is Water is a show that challenges and inspires in equal measure–one that will have audiences both thinking deeply and humming along.

Rain Perry [rainperry.com] is a singer-songwriter, playwright, and filmmaker known for her deeply personal and socially conscious work. Her music has been featured in film and television, and her theatrical productions blend narrative and song to explore themes of identity, memory, and justice. “Beautiful Tree” was the theme for the CW Network’s Life Unexpected, on which she also had the surreal pleasure of appearing as herself. She has released six albums on her own Precipitous Records, as well as writing and touring a solo play about her childhood called Cinderblock Bookshelves: A Guide For Children of Fame-Obsessed Bohemian Nomads. In 2016 she directed The Shopkeeper, a documentary about the impact of the streaming economy on the longest continuously operating recording studio in Austin. Rain's new record, A White Album, wades into the fraught topic of the day: what does it mean to white in America? Can we face our demons head on?

Dates/Times: Sat 6/7 @ 3:30pm - Tue 6/10 @ 8:30pm - Fri 6/13 @ 8pm - Sun 6/15 @ 2pm - Wed 6/18 @ 8:30pm - Fri 6/20 @ 6:30pm - Sun 6/22 @ 11am - Wed 6/25 @ 8:30pm - Sat 6/28 @ 12:30pm.