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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Industrial Past, Murder Ballads Inspire New Stage Work
90.5 WESA: Writer and performer Lissa Brennan’s new work, “Grist from the Mill: 1902,” was informed by sources including two key influences from her childhood: Pittsburgh’s steel mills and Irish murder ballads.
1 comment:
Mia Romsaas
said...
I really want to see the Grist of the mail at trilogy. Interested in experimental music within theater, and this sounds like a production but I would enjoy due to its innate uniqueness. The collaboration between Irish murder ballads and the Pittsburgh steel history is a combination that would be unexpected to most viewers, yet this playwright chose to diverged two important aspects of who she is into what she loves to do, and when art is made in a fashion like this the outcome will always be one of a kind and likely highly personal. I very much enjoy theater that is focused on storytelling directly to the audience, and I also love when folk music accompanies said story. I briefly studied murder ballads earlier this year while reading Jen Silverman drama-romance-absurdist play “The Moors”. Three members of our group performed an original murder ballad for a presentation, and it was enjoyable as both dramatists and musicians to merge these two components of our life into a performance to play together.
1 comment:
I really want to see the Grist of the mail at trilogy. Interested in experimental music within theater, and this sounds like a production but I would enjoy due to its innate uniqueness. The collaboration between Irish murder ballads and the Pittsburgh steel history is a combination that would be unexpected to most viewers, yet this playwright chose to diverged two important aspects of who she is into what she loves to do, and when art is made in a fashion like this the outcome will always be one of a kind and likely highly personal. I very much enjoy theater that is focused on storytelling directly to the audience, and I also love when folk music accompanies said story. I briefly studied murder ballads earlier this year while reading Jen Silverman drama-romance-absurdist play “The Moors”. Three members of our group performed an original murder ballad for a presentation, and it was enjoyable as both dramatists and musicians to merge these two components of our life into a performance to play together.
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