Where do brain anatomy, dollmaking, depression, and healing overlap? How to Make a Doll is a solo theater performance by Marisa Caruso that blends memoir, research, and absurdity to explore mental health and the transformative power of creation. Digging through memory, medical texts, and a towering pile of socks, Caruso searches for meaning in the failures of family and Western medicine. Video, puppetry, sound, and text collide in an experience where grief meets humor, science meets art, and, when words fail, where making something by hand becomes a last resort.
