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    Ice Cream
    Content warning: illness, memory loss

    A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.
    Composer: Benton Roark
    Librettist: Liza Balkan

    Ice Cream
    Ice Cream
    Oubliette
    Content warning: captivity, memory loss

    Laura has been forcibly confined in a basement for years until she frees herself. She approaches a stranger on the street, wondering if the stranger remembers her, and discovers that she barely remembers herself.
    Composer: Ivan Barbotin
    Librettist: Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

    Oubliette
    Oubliette
    Sky on Swings


    We open on an Alzheimer’s hallucination. Martha, a woman in her seventies, sees a surreal and exaggerated world in which strangers torment her and weather invades her kitchen. Martha remains in the grips of her hallucination until the presence of Martha’s daughter, Winnie, rips her out of it. Suddenly, shockingly, Martha i...
    Composer: Lembit Beecher
    Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

    Sky on Swings
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    Oubliette – Oubliette

    Having escaped forced confinment in a basement, a girl approaches a stranger. She asks if the stranger knows her, as she tries to remember her past.

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