Anna Strong's Laundry
A multidisciplinary performance
with live original contemporary music,
poetry, drama, dance, and projections intertwined into a celebration
of Brooklyn’s diversity today and throughout
America’s fight for freedom.
Scenario by Ann Warren
Directed by Patrice Miller
Projections by Robert Morton
Lighting Consultant Kryssy Wright
Equipment Consultant Richard Sage
Featuring the work of 20 contributing Artists:
Roger Bonair-Agard, Mark Farnen, Lynnette Freeman,
Nancy Greening, Cary Hite, Carmen Kordas,
Manuela Lechler, Allan Markowitz, Patrice Miller,
Robert Morton, Kyoko Oyobe, Milica Paranosic,
Lynne Procope, Richard Sage, James Stokes,
Michelle Stuckey, Joe Tucker,
Ann Warren, Stephanie Willing, Kryssy Wright
2 performances only!
Thursday August 21 & Friday August 22
8:00 pm
They Disappeared/As Time Stops
A new play based on the lives of ordinary people
with the Old Stone House in Brooklyn as the setting
in three eras of American patriots:
the American Revolution, World War II, and the war in Iraq.
Written by Mark Farnen
Performed by:
Cary Hite, James Stokes
Music by Manuela Lechler, Ann Warren
Performed by:
Kyoko Oyobe - Piano
Morrigan
A goddess of battle, strife, and sovereignty.
Love us into the dirt,
Unto death, unto the river that frees us from
The land, the land.
Music by Milica Paranosic
Film by Carmen Kordas
Poem by Roger Bonair-Agard
Choreography by Michelle Stuckey
Performed by:
Milica Paranosic, Michelle Stuckey
A Strong Lady
The history of a spy is hard to tell.
If a spy is good, she might leave no clues.
There are other jobs like that, which seem to be done
by an invisible hand. Like keeping a house.
Music by Manuela Lechler
Scenario by Nancy Greening
Choreography by Patrice Miller
Performed by:
Kyoko Oyobe - Piano
Manuela Lechler - Alto Saxophone
Joe Tucker - Percussion
featuring
Stephanie Willing as Anna Strong
Elemental Woman
From Saint Domingue to Nouvelle Orleans,
she is now a free woman of color and property owner,
and an inspiration to her daughters of the future.
Poem by Lynne Procope
Music & Soundscape by Ann Warren
Joe Tucker - Percussion
Ann Warren - Live Electronics
featuring
Lynnette Freeman as the Elemental Woman
Blue Flower
A ballad which plays with the color blue. To be blue, as in Blues: to be sad or
missing love or loved ones..., a symbol for remembrance, peace and compassion.
Music by Manuela Lechler
Performed by:
Kyoko Oyobe - Piano
Manuela Lechler - Alto Saxophone
Joe Tucker - Percussion
Funding for
Anna Strong’s Laundry
has been made possible by (in part)
The Puffin Foundation
and
from donations from people like you!
Thank you!
