08-09 Season
It Is In You
By Marie Garlock
September 26 & 27, 2008
This performance uses storytelling, dance/movement, live music and spoken word to explore the politics of development, HIV and the body.
Secret Agent
By Longleaf Opera
November 14 & 15, 2008
Michael Dellaira, composer and J.D. McClatchy, librettist
A new opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent is set in fin-de-siecle London, and hinges on a group of anarchists’ attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory.
Trojan Barbie
By Christine Evans
November 16 & 17, 2008
A car-crash encounter with Euripides’ Trojan Women. Past and present violently collide as the dreams of women and their fierce hunger for life are played out in the larger context of war.
Greenolicious
By Torkwase Dyson
February 7 & 8, 2009
Greenolicious follows the antics of Marquita and pi, two artists from Brooklyn who devise a two-person parade addressing issues of environmental justice.
Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders
By Howard Craft
March 20 & 21, 2009
After Vietnam, the U.S. military decided it had to find or make smarter, more willing soldiers. One such “smarter soldier” is drawing near to his re-enlistment date.