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The second show of Hip Pocket Theatre's season, Lorca Simons' The Water Bearer's Dream, opens Thursday. Although Lorca, one of founders Johnny and Diane Simons' two daughters, has performed at Hip Pocket, this is the first time the theater has produced one of her plays. The director is her frequent New York collaborator, Gabrielle Roth, with whom she co-founded the experimental theater 5RT, which is keen on movement-heavy ritual theater. We talked with Lorca about her show.

Tell me about the origin of this piece.
For the last several years, I've been collecting a lot of imagery. I think in pictures; I'm very visual. I've been writing down and drawing different pictures that feel strong to me. When I have an idea of an image, I start playing with it and moving it around in space - physically moving around, exploring my body in different shapes and seeing how it develops.

It's described as an exploration of the relationships between water and goodbyes. What's that about?
It's a personal journey. After my move to England, I'm been straddling two very different universes there and in New York, and three if you add Texas into the mix. Anyone who has gone through loss and separation and what it is to come back together will relate.

You presented it in England earlier this year, with Roth as director. How does Gabrielle help you with something so personal?
We've worked together for a long time. She helps me dive more into my heart, and brings out even more truth and helps me get even more into the piece. The primary focus has been to clarify what it is I'm doing and saying, and deepening the story. I knew that I needed a third eye.

Is there dialogue?
There is some spoken word, but it is primarily movement.

Was it a given that you would bring it to your parents' theater?
Hip Pocket is really important to me. I'm feeling a greater need to spend as much time here as possible. I'm really proud to collaborate with them, and I want to be a part of it, because it's a really cool place to be.

As her stand-up act suggests, she wants lots of things.

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