When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, Circle Mirror Transformation is a petri dish revealing, with hilarious detail and clarity, the diffuse and peculiar sadnesses of a motley quintet.

Annie Baker (born April 1981) is an American playwright and film director. She is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick (2013). She has written a series of plays set in the fictional town of Shirley: Body Awareness (2008), Circle Mirror Transformation (2009), The Aliens (2010), and Nocturama (2014). She made her feature film directorial debut with the A24 coming-of-age drama Janet Planet (2023).