A world premiere solo musical with music by Marisa Michelson and text by Mark Campbell
Inner Voices, Fall 2014
Music Directed by Ian Axness, Set and Costumes by Reid Thompson, Lighting by Oliver Wason, Projections by Nick Hussong, and Hair by Jon Carter
Featuring Phoebe Strole
Cello – Brian Sanders
Photos by Carol Rosegg
The Other Room is a 30-minute solo work for female performer. The time is 1990; the place an apartment in Chelsea, New York. Lena works on a painting in the apartment of her best friend Steve to distract her from assisting in his suicide. As she does, she recounts her friendship with Steve and the birth of their activism during the AIDS epidemic.