This new play follows a film editor who is hired to take over the project of a recently deceased documentary filmmaker. Alone and haunted by the material, the editor attempts to navigate endless footage in hopes of finding meaning in a dramatic collective of once united characters. When the composer arrives, ready to score the film, the entire narrative begins to tilt – and the uneasy truths of the past lashes out.

This play marks the latest work from Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff that deals with the slippery world of performance documentation. They are currently featured in MADE in L.A. 2025, with their film THEATER, which weaves a fictional narrative with documentary rehearsal and backstage footage from plays presented at their black box performance space in Hollywood. THE END IS NEW engages with theater, labor, and memory as it reflects on the desire to rewrite the past in the name of the future.On December 12, there will be a post-show Q&A with Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, moderated by REDCAT Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, Katy Dammers.