Sometimes I feel like I wrote my way into your mother’s heart and you into the world.  —Argulio

In October 2008, founding Artistic Director of Bated Breath Theatre Company, Helene Kvale, led a team of theatre practitioners on an anthropological journey to Parkville, Hartford. They interviewed people on the streets, business owners, senior citizens and local politicians. They researched, explored, collaborated and created The Parkville Project incorporating professional and community actors in a devised, promenade piece. Weaving together original text, movement, and puppetry, The Parkville Project tells the story of an undocumented worker caught up in an Immigration Customs Enforcement raid in Hartford. As her life is thrown into relief she is faced with tough choices, comic characters and enduring memories.

 

Writers Michael Bradford and Helene Kvale

Movement Nicole Phaneuf
Puppetry Fergus Walsh
Music Tim Maynard
Lighting Chad Lefebvre
Costume Laura Crow
Sound Greg Purnell
Scenic Design Jeanette Drake
and Rachel Levey
Photographers Rich Wagner,
John Woike, Max Lipka

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