Sanctuary (American Psalm) is a beautiful piece of new theatre that captures both the vastness of Texas, iconic American road-trip, while delving deep into the often singular voice of the lonely traveller searching for peace, knowledge, understanding, and home in a rented Kia. This work straddles the places between play, poetry, performance, song, Church – woven in a wonderful web we might call Americana.” — Zac Kline, co-artistic director of Missing Bolts Productions
Script History:
The piece was presented January 28-31, 2016 at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. as part of the 2015-6 Kogod Cradle Series and the American New Voices Institute. It was produced by Caridad Svich and NoPassport theatre alliance and press in collaboration with Missing Bolts Productions. The cast included Jocelyn Kuritsky and John Moletress. It was directed by John Moletress. With music by Broken Chord and Caridad Svich.
An earlier version of this text was commissioned by Working Theater in New York City for their Five Boroughs/One City Project at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
About Sanctuary (American Psalm): an epic poem for the stage that explores how we are born, how we live, and how we come to terms with and find spaces of sanctuary in our lives, Call it the cry of the 99%, call it a shout-lullaby, Sanctuary is offered as a healing balm for performance during these troubled times.
This project is made possible through the support of: Deborah Brevoort, Kathleen Culebro, Patricia Crespin, Micha Espinosa, Amanda Feldman, Estefania Fadul, Jennifer Faletto, Georgetown University Dept of Theatre, Jorge Huerta, Same Jackson, Sibyl Kempson, Ellen McLaughlin, Laurie McCants, Irma Mayorga, Susan McCully, Chiori Miyagawa, Christi Moore, Winter Miller, Sabrina Peck, Maria Peyramaure, Marco Antonio Rodriguez, Sung Rno, JT Rogers, Lisa Schlesinger, Theodore Shank, Imran Sheikh, Olga Sanchez, Rob Urbinati, Anne Washburn, Elizabeth Wong, what’s the story-los angeles, and anonymous.
Caridad Svich and NoPassport are fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.
Photos from the January 2016 workshop at Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle Series.
Photos by Zac Kline
Related Links:
A Report on ‘Sanctuary (An American Psalm)’ at Arena Stage
