UnShakeable: An Opera in One Act
Hear the operatic stylings a soprano and baritone in this short production.
Sound and Spectacle!
Presented in the SITE galleries
$15 general admission/$10 members, students
This program is sponsored in part by Business Council member Charlotte Jackson Fine Art.
Commissioned for the Shakespeare 400
Duration: One act, 45 minutes in length
Composer: Joseph Illick; Librettist: Andrea Fellows Walters; Dramaturg and Stage Director: Kathleen Clawson; Music Director: Clinton Smith
Characters
Meridian Adelaide Boedecker, soprano; Wyatt Calvin Griffin, baritone; Wishing Star Chorus Audience
Meridian is an actress with memory loss as a result of Erasure
Wyatt is an actor with his memory intact post-Erasure
Setting and Synopsis: An abandoned theater in New Mexico, 25 years from now, 3 years after the viral pandemic Erasure. As a result, everyone has some degree of memory loss, and people are less connected to one another. Wyatt and Meridian, Shakespearean actors and former lovers, drifted apart at the start of the pandemic, and Wyatt has been searching for Meridian ever since.
Doors open at 2:30PM.
