"Powerful, no-nonsense and transparent" - Robert Labaree, New England Conservatory "Engaged us at every level" - Sarah Grunstein, College of the Holy Cross "Soldiers' Tales Untold" is a musical-theatrical production that mixes veterans' testimonies and music to create community dialogue about veterans' issues and war. Nine improvising-musician-narrators weave dialogues between past and present, fairytale and testimony, and the score versus improvisation. Speaking in unsettling sonic and verbal counterpoints, the world of the combat survivors infiltrates and ultimately overtakes the world of the original fable. Interweaving quotes from Stravinsky's 1918 musical fable, “The Soldier's Tale”, and published testimonies of US and Russian veterans of WWII, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, “Soldiers’ Tales Untold” raises questions about the role of art and the long-term impacts of war that today's artists and audiences cannot afford to ignore. Created in 2007 and premiered in spring 2008, the production has interacted with audiences at schools, churches, universities and community centers in Massachussets, Ohio, and Montreal. |
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