Three summers ago, Kali Quinn brought her one-woman—no, three-woman—show, Overture to a Thursday Morning, to the Ko Festival of Performance in Amherst. After performing it in New York and coast to coast, this weekend she brings an expanded, two-part version back to southern Vermont, where it was first developed.
Quinn calls herself “a facilitator of creative discovery, innovative storytelling, and physical play.” She fills the stage with homely props—a pile of suitcases, an antique ironing board, a clothesline, plus a wheelchair and a violin—to weave, in words, music and movement, a tale of three generations of women “and the secrets that haunt their lives.” The generational chronology begins in a 1950s nursery and ends in a present-day nursing home, forging a space, says Quinn, “for people to practice empathy and compassionate creativity around intergenerational care.”
Sept. 25 and 27, 7 p.m., Sept. 28, 2 p.m., $10-15 suggested donation, New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat St., Brattleboro, (802) 254-6884, neyt.org.
