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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
First Preview: Sep 10, 2014
Opening Date: Sep 28, 2014
Closing Date: Sep 29, 2014
Running Time: 02:20
Playing @
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS persents David Lang‘s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, an opera based on an 1888 Ambrose Bierce story of the same name, is about a slave owner (Mr. Williamson) in the pre-civil war American South who walks across his field and disappears, in plain view of his family, his neighbors and his slaves, forever altering the relationships among them.
Everyone around him has his or her own sharp view of what that disappearance means, of why it had to happen, and of what will happen now that there is a ‘hole’ where a man used to be. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field is intended to cross between opera and theater worlds, mixing arias with spoken text, emotional melodies with intense drama. It is written for 5 principals and a small chorus, and the accompaniment is for string quartet on stage, both as the “orchestra” and as part of the set. Ultimately, it is an opera in which the damage done by slavery leaks from the physical to the metaphysical world.
Text by Mac Wellman
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28th @ 7:30 pm
Everyone around him has his or her own sharp view of what that disappearance means, of why it had to happen, and of what will happen now that there is a ‘hole’ where a man used to be. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field is intended to cross between opera and theater worlds, mixing arias with spoken text, emotional melodies with intense drama. It is written for 5 principals and a small chorus, and the accompaniment is for string quartet on stage, both as the “orchestra” and as part of the set. Ultimately, it is an opera in which the damage done by slavery leaks from the physical to the metaphysical world.
Text by Mac Wellman
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28th @ 7:30 pm
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 16
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$15.00 - $25.00
Lottery & Rush
$15 - Students/Seniors/Roulette Members
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