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A trapeze artist views her life — and death — from an unexpected vantage point: the ground

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Lying motionless inside a CAT machine scanning for signs of cancer, Shana Carroll’s brain began to fidget. “I’ve had so many procedures where you’re inside machines and you just feel like, what science fiction weird thing is going on here?” said Carroll, a writer, director and choreographer. What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, knitted together, from the moments in life when a person is lying flat and looking up at the world? Acrobat Anna Kichtchenko rehearses a scene from “The Attic: Things I’ve Seen While Lying on My Back,” written, directed and choreographed by Shana Carroll at the Goodman Theater. The world premiere runs Sept. 5 to Oct. 4, 2026. Milissa Martin And so, in the cold sterility of that hospital room about two years ago, the idea for “The Attic: Things I’ve Seen While Lying on My Back” was born. The show opened last week at The Goodman Theater. What the audience witnesses in Carroll’s show is memoir set free from its binding in a mesmeri