Most recent performances: September 9-11, 2012, Cabrillo Crocker Theatre Aptos, CA. Reviews here, here, and here.
HereAfterHere: a self-guided tour of eternity, directed by Tandy Beal, asks the perennial question: “What happens after we die?” Dante, Blake, The Bible, the Qu’ran, Milton—even the New Yorker cartoonists—all celebrate the human capacity to envision a place where no one has ever gone and then returned to tell all to Oprah or Letterman. So we proceed, imagining the unimaginable. This full-length work mixes the poetic, the comic, the mysterious and the chimerical. Tandy weaves together her skills in dance, theatre, circus and visual narrative with Jon Scoville’s original music. The show creates a rich mosaic of post-mortem maps, a network of ideas and images, a kinetic and conceptual palette of illusions and metaphors focused on life’s afterstages.
As a grand experiment in art and social engagement, Beal invites us to join, in several ways, a conversation about the question of an afterlife: the performance, the community’s participation in a website, video interviews of the audience’s reflections, a symposium, and a post-concert discussion. Some of the questions addressed are: Where is the hereafter located? Why is it so exclusionary? How do we get in? And what’s the price of admission?
| Music: | Jon Scoville | ||
| Media: | Ben Jaffe | ||
| Lighting: | Derek Duarte | ||
| Scenic: | Kate Edmunds | ||
| Video: | Ellen Bromberg, Jess Damsen, Bruce G. Lee, Denise Gallant, Nada Miljkovic |
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| Costumes: | Maria Crush | ||
