SLAMDANCE 2019 REVIEW: Mark Jackson’s THIS TEACHER is a brilliant depiction of the hazards we encounter seeking freedom while we ourselves are just a mess
The audience is primed for the usual suspects – hungry animal or potential rapist. But where Hafsia’s true adversary lies is in her mind. In other scenes, she is trying to commune with nature, and later with god. “What is the answer?” she demands to the empty woods. “You know what I am talking about!” she insists angrily. It is evident here that she herself cannot articulate the nature of her own angst.