Contemporary Theater Capstone Festival: To Make You Love Me (Dru Berrian)

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Sunday / December 4, 2022 / 8:00 p.m.

Saturday / December 10, 2022 / 7:00 p.m.

Studio 401

31 Hemenway Street, Floor 4—Studio 401

Boston

02215

United States

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To Make You Love Me is a multiscreen filmic experience cetered around suicidal ideation, toxic ambition, and public perception. The story explores a relationship to death and how when the water is rising, there is no way out, only through.

The film follows the main character as they attempt to plan how exactly they want people to remember them after their death.

Sonically narrated by a curated playlist and featured on the three screens are different versions of the character that they once imagined themselves to be, and their superficial journey to become them in time for their death. Their journey doesn't go as planned, and they are followed by the truth of their existence.

Through music, movement, and love, the trajectory of their life is changed after they meet and learn from Death, leaving them to make a decision.

Audience Advisory: This presentation contains suicidal ideation and implied suicide, self harm, implied nudity, body dysmorphia, blood, strobe light effects, sexual situations, and themes of depression.

Program Information

Director's Note

All content used in this piece is from its original source—me. They are a piece of me, not a whole picture. They are a reflection of who I was then, and are used to compliment who I am now. Please, take care of yourself when viewing. ‌

—Dru Berrian, creator/director of To Make You Love Me

Special Thanks

Angela Farr Schiller—I would not have been able to complete this work without you. I am forever grateful.
Dyce, for the long nights of content generation and filming and crying.
My sisters, for not asking questions when I told them we were filming.
To all of those who lent themselves to this vision, and did not question me when I couldn't tell you what it was. This is just a part of it.

Boston Conservatory thanks audience members for viewing this program information online. This paperless program saved 400 sheets of paper, 42 gallons of water, and 36 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.