Constellations
An Outdoor Festival
May 27 – June 12, 2022
rom May 27, 2022 – June 12, 2022, we will hold an Outdoor Festival that highlights DE’s partnerships with Ohketeau Cultural Center, The Hinterlands, and Jupiter Performance Studio:
- Larry Spotted Crow Mann’s Freedom In Season, co-presented by DE and Ohketeau (Ashfield, MA)
May 27 – 29, 2022
- The Hinterlands’ Will You Miss Me? (Detroit, MI)
June 3 – 5, 2022
- Jupiter Performance Studio’s In The Name Of The Mother Tree (Harlem, NY)
June 8 – 12, 2022
Summaries
Larry Spotted Crow Mann’s Freedom In Season (Ashfield, MA)
Co-produced by Double Edge Theatre and Ohketeau Cultural Center
May 27 – 29 at 7pm
Freedom in Season is based on Mann’s great-great-great-grandfather Samuel Vickers: Union Civil War Veteran. It is a riveting and emotional account that centers around the untold story of Nipmuc men in the Civil War, dispossession of Nipmuc lands, and removal of their children. Featuring Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Andre Strongbearheart Gaines, Jr, Jasmine Rochelle Goodspeed, Tomantha Sylvester, and Daishaun Red Deer Garate.
You are welcome to experience an exhibit post performance created with Nipmuc scholar Cheryl Watching Crow on Indigenous history, focusing on Mann’s family history, as well as an after-performance gathering/talk directly following the performance between Watching Crow and Mann.
The Hinterlands’ Will You Miss Me? (Detroit, MI)
June 3 – 5 at 7pm
A haunting song echoing across the holler draws a traveler into a funeral service for one of many white workers who moved from Appalachia to Detroit in the last century. But this is no normal funeral and this is no ordinary corpse. Layering traditional Appalachian songs with family lore, pre-Christian mythology, and more, Will You Miss Me? pushes audiences to examine the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and to grieve the selves that have been forgotten. It is a funeral for whiteness, a memorial for what came before its construction, and a way of imagining what might come after.
Will You Miss Me? is an original performance by The Hinterlands, created and performed by Liza Bielby, Livia Chesley, Jenna Kirk, and Richard Newman.
With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Apollo Theater and National Black Theatre’s
In The Name Of The Mother Tree
A project of Jupiter Performance Studio (Harlem, NY)
Developed in Residency at Double Edge Theatre. Originally Commissioned by the Apollo Theater. Support to develop this work has been provided by Mercury Store, The Shed, Network of Ensemble Theaters, Hi-Arts, NYSCA, and a National Theater Project artist development grant.
June 8 – 12 at 7pm
In The Name Of The Mother Tree (ITNO) is a new theatrical ceremony, inspired by Alexis Pauline Gumbs: M Archive: After the End of the World and Dub: Finding Ceremony. INTO explores the magic, mystery, and medicine of a people charged with remembering their ancestors’ earth-saving rituals. Ebony Noelle Golden conceived the project, adapted poems, crafted additional writing, choreographed, and directed the project. The creative team includes music by Karma Mayet, costumes by Mimi Plange. Ebony Webster serves as assistant choreographer.
Ticket Prices
Student / Senior: $42
Child: $30
Alumni: $35
Ashfield Adult: $43
Ashfield Student / Senior: $40
Join us for Constellations!
For further inquiries about tickets or any of these events, please write tickets@doubleedgetheatre.org or call 413-628-0277.
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts,
made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
