(put your hometown’s name here):
The Opera A series of site-specific operas that adapts to each host community, these shows weave hometown documentation with Squonk’s aural and visual trickery. This meta-civic celebration, with an original score, is a heartfelt toast and a punk-vaudevillian roast.
Wherever we go, there we are.
2006/2007 Hometown Operas:
Pittsburgh: The Opera
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater
College Park: The Opera
University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith PAC
Albany: The Opera
University at Albany
Chester County: The Opera
Delaware Valley Arts Consortium
South Orange: The Opera
New
Jersey’s South Orange PAC
Columbia: The Opera
Maryland’s Columbia Festival of the Arts
2007/2008 Hometown Operas
Baltimore: The Opera
Baltimore Theatre Project
St. Louis: The Operetta
First Night St. Louis
Bloomington: The Opera
Indiana’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Newark: The Opera
University of Delaware
Charleston: The Opera
West Virginia’s FestivALL Charleston
More Hometown Operas to come in the 2008/2009 Season!
We hope to Squonk your hometown next!
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“a healthy dose of civic celebration mingled with a friendly roast of hometown pride…
uplifting and completely over-the-top”
-Times Union
“noisy, colorful, funny, outrageous”
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“a funny, frank and sometimes sentimental ode to Albany…a multimedia extravaganza of music, song, dance and video”
-Albany Sunday Gazette
“College Park gets its own opera – finally! – and it’s a doozy!”
-Washington Post Express
“an abstract music video of the town”
-Philadelphia Inquirer
“They struck out to tailor their opera to any city, anywhere in America. The project was genius, as the 90-minute work is not only portable but relevant to every hometown audience.”
-Albany Sunday Gazette
“The result is an unusual 90-minute ode to the Maryland suburb, including but not limited to rock-and-roll, projected videos, aerial footage, dancers and a puppet show. The elements blend together onstage to create a show that is at once playful and polished. A group of six musicians take the stage in tracksuits, pretending to be Olympic athletes at an over-the-top welcome-home ceremony. Then they sit down and play stunning, sophisticated music.”
-The Washington Post
"a surreal dreamscape, alternately sweet, silly, satiric and cool…with a soulful, driving, melodic score."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“a quirky, playful, music- and image-driven piece of performance art that offers a nontraditional view of a place you thought you knew”
-Tribune-Review
If you'd like your hometown to be SQUONKED, please contact our representation.
To purchase a cd with the music from this production,
please visit our store.
Photos by Larry Rippel |
