2019 Season Announcement!
June 2019:
Stitch
We open our season in June with the American premiere of "Stitch", an a cappella opera for three female voices and three sewing machines. Framed by hypnotic language and locked within the unrelenting rhythm of the sewing machine, this work sheds light on the conditions of the sweatshop and gives us a glimpse into the lives of the women who clothe us all.
Performances take place June 14th and 15th, 7:30PM at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, Chicago
Stitch
We open our season in June with the American premiere of "Stitch", an a cappella opera for three female voices and three sewing machines. Framed by hypnotic language and locked within the unrelenting rhythm of the sewing machine, this work sheds light on the conditions of the sweatshop and gives us a glimpse into the lives of the women who clothe us all.
Performances take place June 14th and 15th, 7:30PM at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, Chicago
October 2019:
Darkling
In October, we present the Chicago premiere of Stefan Weisman and Anna Rabinowitz’s "Darkling," a harrowing contemplation on the descendants of the Holocaust. A true artistic collaboration written for singers, actors, and mixed media, this atmospheric, visceral work centers upon a woman who sifts through a box of old photographs and letters found in her late father’s closet. Using the poetry from Anna Rabinowitz’s book of the same title, this work recalls fragments of lives that were lost when their owners perished in the Holocaust, and in the words of the poet herself, asks the viewer to consider stories that are “pleading to be flossed from the teeth of silence.”
Darkling
In October, we present the Chicago premiere of Stefan Weisman and Anna Rabinowitz’s "Darkling," a harrowing contemplation on the descendants of the Holocaust. A true artistic collaboration written for singers, actors, and mixed media, this atmospheric, visceral work centers upon a woman who sifts through a box of old photographs and letters found in her late father’s closet. Using the poetry from Anna Rabinowitz’s book of the same title, this work recalls fragments of lives that were lost when their owners perished in the Holocaust, and in the words of the poet herself, asks the viewer to consider stories that are “pleading to be flossed from the teeth of silence.”