Weaving together text and music from journal entries, poems, and voice memos by KARL and Grey Rose Grant, THE PRECIPICE is a 100-minute abstract chamber-rock opera that tells the story of two parallel journeys of becoming and self-mythologizing, from both a trans/queer perspective and a cis/straight one. The "precipice" itself represents irreversible change–growing up, leaving home, and moving on from past places, relationships, and visions of self. The show asks: is making ourselves a tragic act, a leap from the precipice, a great wrenching? How do the metaphors and myths by which we construct our identity hold us back? How do you leave behind a relationship, place, or vision of self without losing the part of it that made you who you are? And finally, do we do this alone? Is the formation of self an individual act or a collective one?
Scene 2.1 is a rumination on young love, and its unsustainability.
The whole show is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1MURb-tSQ
Recorded live at the world premiere at the Space at Irondale, Brooklyn, NY, June 27, 2024 by Charles Mueller.
CONTEMPORANEOUS is: David Bloom, Conductor; Madison Greenstone, Clarinet; Josh Henderson, Violin; Titilayo Ayangade, Cello; Brendon Randall-Myers, Electric Guitar; Pat Swoboda, Electric Bass; Milena Gligic, Piano/Toy Piano; Robby Bowen, Percussion
