Ashley Toliver had prepared a simple scene of only two readers, dressed in matching black and
white clothes, delivering her lines in colorless voices against a backdrop of
charcoal drawings of insects and anatomy.
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| Laura Gibson |
Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson
brought Britta Ameel’s pieces to life by putting them to music, encouraging the
audience to participate by humming an ambient tune.
Carl Adamshick’s single poem, “Black Snow,” was read aloud by four readers in a line, one after the other, truly evocative of a fashion runway.
The night concluded with a reading from a child dressed in a traditional
white-sheet-ghost costume, who chanted from Zachary Schomburg’s haunting poem Agnes the Elephant in
a chilling monotone.
