HOLLOW HEARTH is a musical performance about a group of travellers on an unknown mission that sing wondrous tales of adventure around a fire each night. The travellers consist of The Navigator, The Wrangler, The Merchant, The Fortune Teller, The Tinkerer, and The Tourist. Though they don’t all get along on the journey, they each tell a tale by the fire of grandiose people, some building off others’ stories; they play with the reality of the space. The central character is the Playmaker, the activator of the travellers’ stories; they orchestrate the movement and the players of the story through song, art, and puppetry in the background of scenes. It is an epic show about desire, loss, hope, and the human condition at the crossroads of time and space. Through modes of musical-style song, puppetry, and metanarrative dialogue, HOLLOW HEARTH examines themes of loneliness, violence, isolation, and questions the integrity of human agency.