HART ISLAND REQUIEM
Music by Tidtaya Sinutoke
Book & Lyrics by Ty Defoe
Hart Island, the United States' most documented potter's field is located in the Bronx, NY, where an estimated one million people are buried from 1869 to present day. This investigative theatre piece depicts stories of dead people who gather, at an abandon theme park to remember their lives and deaths. A series of stories was gathered, imagined, and stitched together to highlight people who were undocumented, living in poverty, or lost. HART ISLAND REQUIEM asks: what happens to those souls when they are unable to rest in peace in "America"?
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Audio
Featuring:
Lily Ali-Oshatz, Emily Borromeo, Sommer Carbuccia, Mary Kate Morrissey, Angela Travis, David J. Wiens
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Production/Development History:
• Drama League Residency (2019)
• Polyphone Festival (2019)
• Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals (2018)
• Apples and Oranges Studio THEatre ACCELERATOR (2017)
• One Company Writer's Residency Retreat (2017)
• CATWALK Art Residency (2016)
• EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence (2016-2017)
• Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant (2016)
• Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2016)
• CAP21 Writers Residency (2016)
• The Civilians R&D Group (2015-2016)
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Gallery
HART ISLAND REQUIEM at Polyphone Festival
Photos by Cass Meehan Photography
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