When:
Saturday, February 11, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Abbott Hall, Room 206, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Cost: $10 General Admission
$6 Full-time Student (in advance)
Contact:
Brannon Bowers
(847) 467-1172
Group: American Music Theatre Project
Category: Fine Arts, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag
Yasmine Holly is a fictional every-person on an illness journey. As we hear Yasmine’s story from her entrance into the night side, to treatment, to her relationships with her doctors, nurses, her husband, and her mother, the audience also experiences short visions of other characters on illness journeys of their own. The crux of Night Side Songs is its sing-along score, where audiences are asked to participate in the story by learning songs to sing with and to the characters, bearing witness and adding their voices as they go on this journey side by side.
Night Side Songs is not a musical, nor is it a play. It is a secular mass, only holy insofar as togetherness is holy. We look to bring new space, new ritual to the illness experience. The piece takes doctors, patients, caretakers, and researchers out of the hospital or the bedroom to meld the land of the well and the sick. It is a gathering of music and story meant to bring us closer to that thing we all avoid talking about – and thus, closer to life.
NIGHT SIDE SONGS
By the Lazours
Music Supervision & Direction by Madeline Benson
February 11, 17 & 18 at 7:30pm
Room 206, Wirtz Center Chicago
Abbott Hall, 710 N Lake Shore Drive
When:
Friday, February 17, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Abbott Hall, Room 206, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Cost: $10 General Admission
$6 Full-time Student (in advance)
Contact:
Brannon Bowers
(847) 467-1172
Group: American Music Theatre Project
Category: Fine Arts, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag
Yasmine Holly is a fictional every-person on an illness journey. As we hear Yasmine’s story from her entrance into the night side, to treatment, to her relationships with her doctors, nurses, her husband, and her mother, the audience also experiences short visions of other characters on illness journeys of their own. The crux of Night Side Songs is its sing-along score, where audiences are asked to participate in the story by learning songs to sing with and to the characters, bearing witness and adding their voices as they go on this journey side by side.
Night Side Songs is not a musical, nor is it a play. It is a secular mass, only holy insofar as togetherness is holy. We look to bring new space, new ritual to the illness experience. The piece takes doctors, patients, caretakers, and researchers out of the hospital or the bedroom to meld the land of the well and the sick. It is a gathering of music and story meant to bring us closer to that thing we all avoid talking about – and thus, closer to life.
NIGHT SIDE SONGS
By the Lazours
Music Supervision & Direction by Madeline Benson
February 11, 17 & 18 at 7:30pm
Room 206, Wirtz Center Chicago
Abbott Hall, 710 N Lake Shore Drive
When:
Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Abbott Hall, Room 206, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Cost: $10 General Admission
$6 Full-time Student (in advance)
Contact:
Brannon Bowers
(847) 467-1172
Group: American Music Theatre Project
Category: Fine Arts, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag
Yasmine Holly is a fictional every-person on an illness journey. As we hear Yasmine’s story from her entrance into the night side, to treatment, to her relationships with her doctors, nurses, her husband, and her mother, the audience also experiences short visions of other characters on illness journeys of their own. The crux of Night Side Songs is its sing-along score, where audiences are asked to participate in the story by learning songs to sing with and to the characters, bearing witness and adding their voices as they go on this journey side by side.
Night Side Songs is not a musical, nor is it a play. It is a secular mass, only holy insofar as togetherness is holy. We look to bring new space, new ritual to the illness experience. The piece takes doctors, patients, caretakers, and researchers out of the hospital or the bedroom to meld the land of the well and the sick. It is a gathering of music and story meant to bring us closer to that thing we all avoid talking about – and thus, closer to life.
NIGHT SIDE SONGS
By the Lazours
Music Supervision & Direction by Madeline Benson
February 11, 17 & 18 at 7:30pm
Room 206, Wirtz Center Chicago
Abbott Hall, 710 N Lake Shore Drive