Methods of Escape

Penn State BA Theatre Studies

January 2025

“Things would be a lot better if

everyone saw me the way you

do.”

A New Play written by Sylvie

Vanstory

A student goes on a weekend homework bender. Accompanied by the imagined characters from her half-finished novel, she parses through her history and contemplates her future via her journals and a series of lyrical monologues. Methods of Escape is a new play about the relationship between self-sabotage and self-healing, detailing the innermost workings of the mind of a creative spirit.