O, Longelica! 

May 9, 2022 / The Soil Factory, Ithaca NY


Decades after an apocalyptic flood, a town hall convenes as an old journal — an artifact and remnant of pre-flood life — is found, parsed through, and discussed. Through dialogue between the performers and audience, interspersed narration from a chorus, and a sing-a-long where poems from the journal are sung to the tune of popular folk songs, a meaning making exercise in which a group collectively unravels knowledge of the past is conducted.