I Have No Stories to Tell You mines the aftereffects of war through the story of a soldier’s return home from an extended assignment on the battlefield. Written as a companion piece to Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, the opera explores war as a catalyst for changed identity through th...
Content warning: attempted suicide, death, PTSD, war
Based on the real-life experiences of US Marine Christian Ellis, Fallujah follows the story of fictional USMC Lance Corporal Philip Houston. After a failed suicide attempt, Philip experiences flashbacks to the horrors of the Iraq war while waiting out a 72-hour holding period in a veterans ...