Gelsey Bell

Broschiertes Buch

[Morning//Mourning]

Mɔɹnɪŋ

Beschreibung

A cry in the dark, gentle yet penetrating…sly and sweet, wistful and winsome and altogether lovable. —New York Times mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] is a performance text for an experimental opera that tells the story of what would transpire if all humans disappeared from Earth, starting in the present day and moving to 1.6 billion years into the future when life can no longer survive on the planet. Five characters guide the audience through the changes on Earth as forests grow back, new species evolve, and the human-made world erodes away. This work is a fantastical and playful exploration into the dire political and ethical contradictions that structure current human relations with nature.

Autor

Gelsey Bell (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, playwright, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), commissioned by the HERE Arts Center and presented in the Prototype Festival; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery; the musical one-act Archaeopteris (2025), commissioned by Wet Ink; and thingNY’s collaboratively written opera Mouthful (2024). She has released multiple albums, including the recent mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, Herb Alpert/Ucross, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Japan Foundation, NYSCA, and others. Performance highlights include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc.) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Foreign Experiences and Improvement, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, Alaina Ferris’s The Lydian Gale Parr, Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird, and other works by Jay Afrisando, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Dan Trueman, and others. She has a PhD in Performance Studies from NYU and has published articles in TDR/The Drama Review (for which she is a contributing editor), The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (for which she is an associate editor), Tempo, Performance Research, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798992283938
• Artikelnr.: 74801138