What if you lost your freedom in an instant?
This is the story of Lali and Beng, a journalist and aid worker being held captive. No one knows where they've been taken or if they are alive. Or, maybe their story is being broadcast to the world? A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live.
Moved by the increasing risk journalists faced in their work, playwright and former journalist Winter Miller wrote No One Is Forgotten, a two-woman play which premiered in 2019 at The Rattlestick Theater in NYC, to critical acclaim.
Now, Winter Miller, Paola Prestini,and Sxip Shirey are adapting Winter's play into an operatic hybrid designed as an exclusive audio experience using foley, cello, electronics, operatic voice, and actors to create a world ofsound where the audience can enter, screen-free, into Lali and Beng's cell.
In the future, the final work will be realized in three iterations; the pure sound experience, an A/V filmed interpretation, and eventually a live staged performance.
This February, the presentation will include a 20-minute audio presentation of operatic material in development, as well as exclusive ‘making of’ footage and supporting content surrounding hostage advocacy and support for journalists’ freedoms. We continue to raise awareness of the need for protections for freedom of speech and hostage advocacy.
Co-directed by Kevin Newbury and Elliott Forrest
Featuring: KathleenChalfant, Karen Slack and Eve Gigliotti.
Hear it for the first time at HERE on February 24: https://here.org/event/no-one-is-forgotten
What if you lost your freedom in an instant?
This is the story of Lali and Beng, a journalist and aid worker being held captive. No one knows where they've been taken or if they are alive. Or, maybe their story is being broadcast to the world? A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live.
Moved by the increasing risk journalists faced in their work, playwright and former journalist Winter Miller wrote No One Is Forgotten, a two-woman play which premiered in 2019 at The Rattlestick Theater in NYC, to critical acclaim.
Now, Winter Miller, Paola Prestini,and Sxip Shirey are adapting Winter's play into an operatic hybrid designed as an exclusive audio experience using foley, cello, electronics, operatic voice, and actors to create a world ofsound where the audience can enter, screen-free, into Lali and Beng's cell.
In the future, the final work will be realized in three iterations; the pure sound experience, an A/V filmed interpretation, and eventually a live staged performance.
This February, the presentation will include a 20-minute audio presentation of operatic material in development, as well as exclusive ‘making of’ footage and supporting content surrounding hostage advocacy and support for journalists’ freedoms. We continue to raise awareness of the need for protections for freedom of speech and hostage advocacy.
Co-directed by Kevin Newbury and Elliott Forrest
Featuring: KathleenChalfant, Karen Slack and Eve Gigliotti.
Hear it for the first time at HERE on February 24: https://here.org/event/no-one-is-forgotten
What if you lost your freedom in an instant?
This is the story of Lali and Beng, a journalist and aid worker being held captive. No one knows where they've been taken or if they are alive. Or, maybe their story is being broadcast to the world? A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live.
Moved by the increasing risk journalists faced in their work, playwright and former journalist Winter Miller wrote No One Is Forgotten, a two-woman play which premiered in 2019 at The Rattlestick Theater in NYC, to critical acclaim.
Now, Winter Miller, Paola Prestini,and Sxip Shirey are adapting Winter's play into an operatic hybrid designed as an exclusive audio experience using foley, cello, electronics, operatic voice, and actors to create a world ofsound where the audience can enter, screen-free, into Lali and Beng's cell.
In the future, the final work will be realized in three iterations; the pure sound experience, an A/V filmed interpretation, and eventually a live staged performance.
This February, the presentation will include a 20-minute audio presentation of operatic material in development, as well as exclusive ‘making of’ footage and supporting content surrounding hostage advocacy and support for journalists’ freedoms. We continue to raise awareness of the need for protections for freedom of speech and hostage advocacy.
Co-directed by Kevin Newbury and Elliott Forrest
Featuring: KathleenChalfant, Karen Slack and Eve Gigliotti.
Hear it for the first time at HERE on February 24: https://here.org/event/no-one-is-forgotten
