What is lost when something is taken but not given? What happens when sounds of progress overwhelm songs of longing? Matthew Paul Olmos creates a vast “American” space, inhabited by eternal characters; fictive yet real, spirits at once alive and long dead. This script is lyrical free-verse; a mythic opera for our dissociative times. These are theatrics that challenge the constraints of Theatre. Rationally, we understand that the myth of “progress” means marginalization. In America, it is white supremacy made manifest (destiny). Emotionally, the audience apprehends we are ghosts left longing...
What is lost when something is taken but not given? What happens when sounds of progress overwhelm songs of longing? Matthew Paul Olmos creates a vast “American” space, inhabited by eternal characters; fictive yet real, spirits at once alive and long dead. This script is lyrical free-verse; a mythic opera for our dissociative times. These are theatrics that challenge the constraints of Theatre. Rationally, we understand that the myth of “progress” means marginalization. In America, it is white supremacy made manifest (destiny). Emotionally, the audience apprehends we are ghosts left longing for what was --