In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Elizabeth Du Val’s
For When Things Fall Apart
The Marsh San Francisco Theater Mainstage
August 15 at 4:00 pm & August 16 at 5:30 pm
Written & Performed by Elizabeth Du Val
Opener: Molly Rose-Williams
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
60 minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
Once, there was a dancer who had to quit. She put all of her eggs in one new basket in a new city across the country- and the eggs broke all at once, leaving her jobless, friendless, and homeless. Now what? A search for identity, home and connection.
Artist Biography
Elizabeth Du Val, Writer and Performer
Elizabeth Du Val is a retired ballet dancer who was lucky enough to dance with a variety of companies such as Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Connecticut Ballet and American Festival Ballet among others for over 15 years. She also toured with Phantom of the Opera (the play), performed in Le Cirque, danced with NY Baroque Dance Co, and toured the world dancing on a cruise ship. She has been performing her first full length solo theatre show Benjamin’s Passion around the country and Canada since 2023 in Fringe festivals and it was produced by The Marsh in the IFOYE festival in 2024, as well as in Richmond, VA at the Firehouse Theatre in 2025.
Opener
Molly Rose-Williams
Molly is a queer, white, able-bodied performer, writer, audio producer, and educator. Their work melds dance, circus, theater, and physical comedy to explore the ways collective imagination substantiates, and the transformative and healing potentials of storytelling.
They have shared their performance and teaching in the US, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, in festivals and venues such as the State of Play Festival in San Francisco (USA), the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley (USA), the Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia (USA), the Collapsible Hole in New York City (USA), Vancouver Fringe Festival (Canada), 4×4 Nights in Tijuana (Mexico), La Roseraie and Tic Tac Art Centre in Brussels (Belgium), among many others. Their performance work has been lauded by critics for its “distinctive alchemy of humor and pathos“ (San Francisco Chronicle), and described as “simply enchanting” (Jen Norris Reviews Dance) and “delightful in a way that stops time” (Life As A Modern Dancer). They have also been honored with awards from Theatre Bay Area (‘Outstanding Special Production’), the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (‘Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text’), and 4×4 TJ Nights International Choreography Competition (semi-finalist).
As an audio producer, Molly works as Head of Story Development with national medical storytelling organization, The Nocturnists. Their work as lead producer of the documentary series Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest and Post-Roe America won consecutive Anthem Awards and was nominated for a Webby in Best Limited-Series & Specials.
They also regularly write for national dance blog, Life As A Modern Dancer, and develop food-based curriculum for non-traditional classrooms in collaboration with organizations such as The Edible Schoolyard and The Center for Ecoliteracy.
Molly holds a BA summa cum laude in Geography and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College.
Piece Description – Professional Dancer
This is a humorous short piece looking at how we make sense of and talk about our work as artists. What does it mean to be a “Dancer”? How do I respond when people ask me “what kind of dance do you do”? The piece blends movement, physical comedy, and storytelling to explore the slippery, mysterious, and often absurd ways we find to translate our relationship to our creative impulses and labor. It also touches on the more existential question at the heart of many of these fumbling conversations: What AM I doing? And why?
Please read our
Health, Safety and COVID-19 Information
Our commitment to our patrons