DAVID LANG
MAC WELLMAN
BOB McGRATH
DOUGLAS KINNEY FROST
LAURIE OLINDER
BILL MORRISON
JIM FINDLAY
DAVID LANG
BOB McGRATH
A slave owner in the pre-civil war American South walks across his field and disappears, in plain view of his family, his neighbors and his slaves, forever altering the relationships among them. Everyone around him has his or her own sharp view of what that disappearance means, of why it had to happen, and of what will happen now that there is a ‘hole’ where a man used to be. Based on a short story by the writer Ambrose Bierce, the difficulty of crossing a field.
"Bracingly Innovative"
"Poised to place cutting-edge opera center stage"
"Suddenly Indispensable"
"Suddenly Indispensable"
"A Modern Day Diaghilev"
“The Difficulty of Crossing a Field is a major contribution to American Musical Theater...This astonishing work must not be allowed to vanish into thin air. I know I can't get it out of my head.”
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