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      • The Desire/Divinity Project:
        • Song of Song of Songs
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      • Constellation Chor
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      • Naamah’s Ark
      • Tamar of the River
      • Monteverdi/Bartok Project
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        • The Other Room
        • Hotel Sarajevo
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    The Other Room


    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.



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