The Broken Planetarium to Bring Folk Opera FG 17 ATLANTIS to FERTILE GROUND 2017

From the creators of last year's Frankenstein: A Cabaret, The Broken Planetarium presents a new imaginative folk opera based on the myth of Atlantis for Fertile Ground 2017.

After Manhattan is completely under water because of climate change, New Yorkers grow gills and continue on as usual. At the top of one skyscraper surrounded by ocean, a group of east village folk singers meet every week to share songs they've just written and opinions about the state of the world. From this group, an unlikely friendship between an aging male folk singer who lives above the water line and a young female submerged-songwriter is forged. When he begins to forget words, and then melodies, and finally even the way home, she stubbornly fights to keep things as they were. This imaginative folk opera takes a moving yet playful look at how we humans sing, argue, create, equivocate, and just continue on through times of profound loss.

FG 17 ATLANTIS is by Laura Christina Dunn, with music by Laura Christina Dunn, Brigit Kelly Young, Kendy Gable, Monica Metzler (Forest Veil), Frank Mazzetti and Maggie Mascal, and choreography by Rebekah Stiles. Directed by Eva Andrews.

Performances will play: Wed, Jan 18th and Thu, Jan 19th @ 8:00pm; Fri, Jan 20 @ 10:00pm; Sat, Jan 21 @ 1:30pm; and Sun, Jan 22nd @ 8:00pm at Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, Oregon 97202. Cost: $20 adults/ $15 for students and seniors. Tickets at fertilegroundpdx.org. Learn more at www.brokenplanetarium.org/atlantis.

Laura Christina Dunn is the 2015 recipient of The Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Fugue, At Length, The Bear Deluxe, and Zocalo Public Square, among others. In March 2015, her chapbook Spider Blue was published by Dancing Girl Press. She has released three full length folk albums with her band The Ghosts of Xmas Past. While living in New York City, she composed music and performed for the theater companies RadyBloom and Art Party, including 2011's Live! Mermaids! Live! and 2012's The Orange Person. The Broken Planetarium produced her show The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera for Fertile Ground 2015 and Frankenstein: A Cabaret for Fertile Ground 2016. Listen at lauradunn.bandcamp.org.

The Broken Planetarium is an inclusive arts collective focused on the creation and support of new works by both professional artists and people who do not necessarily identify as artists. Each month, Planetarium members make a new piece centered around a theme, which they then share at the monthly arts night or on the blog. The Broken Planetarium also collaborates and creates a platform for new work to be shared with audiences in the Portland area and beyond. Learn more at www.brokenplanterarium.org.

Pictured: Natasha Kotey. Photo by Laura Hadden.

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