Facing Down Death
OperaHub in collaboration with Fort Point Theatre Channel
presents
Facing Down Death
Featuring:
Erik Satie's Socrate
and
Excerpts from Erin Huelskamp and Christie Lee Gibson's The Ten Block Walk: An Old Person's Odyssey
Socrate
Written to be performed by the Princesse de Polignac and her lovers, Socrate plays with text from Plato about Socrates and his followers. How can they emulate his calmness that they so admire when he as about to die?
The Ten-Block Walk
FPTC member Christie Lee Gibson, librettist, is collaborating with composer Erin Huelskamp on this one-act chamber opera and movement-based theatre piece. The Ten-Block Walk follows Mrs. Otis as she journeys from her home to the local senior center. This is a piece about being present, about taking time and taking in your surroundings and responding to them. It is about persistence in the face of pain and obstacles and handicap, and about understanding that when you achieve your goals, often after great physical and mental exertion, it doesn’t always look or feel like you think it’s going to.
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