Ballads from a Distant Star–IN NEW YORK CITY!

OMYGOSH OMYGOSH OMYGOSH!

My friend introduced me to some folks at Arts On Site, and I proposed a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY performance of BALLADS FROM A DISTANT STAR–and I got it!

PLEASE, book your calendars for MARCH 30TH! There will be two performances: 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM!

BALLADS FROM A DISTANT STAR:

BALLADS FROM A DISTANT STAR: Imagine the working families of a 19th Century mining town–sold by the company bosses to bodysnatching aliens, and taken in their silver ship to mine on a distant planet! Imagine how their songs, stories and legends mutate and change over these vast distances! The Pied Piper, the two sisters Shahrazad and Dunyazad (and the murderous king) of 1001 Nights, sundered lovers from folk songs everywhere, Thomas the Rhymer and the Faerie Queen, Two Strange Babes–even the famous and grisly tale of James Wilson, murdered by Burke and Hare! All re-told and re-envisioned as SFF songs, poems, scenes, and monologues–explored by an ethnomusicologist astronaut, looking for answers in the distant stars!

IT’S GOING TO BE FUN! It’s going to be 50 minutes of BIZARRITUDE AND GLORY! PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDARS! HUZZAH!

Featuring:

Carla Kissane
Tim Rodriguez
Carlos Hernandez
Amanda Baker

and yours truly, C. S. E. Cooney

Directed by Miriam Mikiel Grill

LET’S DO THIS THING!