Voices of Community

Live From the Edge

Caterpillar Soup

VOC 2008

Voices Of Community 2010

A Performance Series on Diversity

Universes  (New York)

April 9, 8pm-Bellows Falls Opera House

April 10, 8pm-New England Youth Theatre

Live From the Edge

Tickets are $15/$10 Students and Seniors

Call the Sandglass Box Office To Make Reservations: (802) 387-4051

or email:  info@sandglasstheater.org

Universes has crafted a unique and explosive voice with their multi-cultural performance that turns the poem into communal activism.  “Live From the Edge” is an evening filled with a blend of slam poetry and theater that looks at life in America through the eyes of these New York artists who have created their own brand of fusion theater.  Performances will take place Friday, April 9 at the historic Bellows Falls Opera House, and Saturday, April 10 at the New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro.  Both shows are at 8pm, and tickets are $15, $10 for students and seniors.

Redefining what theater is and who it speaks to, Live From the Edge is a unique performance event.  Big, bold, authentic, and piercingly relevant!  Esemble members Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz, Gamal Abdel Chasten, and “Ninja” utilize each person’s unique realms of performance and life experience.  They draw from Jazz, Spanish Boleros, Gospel, the Blues, Hip-Hop, and more to create an exuberant, insightful, and eloquent evening’s entertainment.  Sandglass Theater is able to present Universes through the support of NEA and NPN.  Universes tours world-wide; in the past year alone they have been to eleven cities in the states as well as the Encuentros Festival in Columbia; they are currently traveling to New Orleans, before heading to the Northeast.

Check out a clip of Universes here

Lyena Strelkoff                

   May 22, 8pm

   May 23, 7pm

Caterpillar Soup

Directed by Paul Linke

With humor, hope, candor and courage, CATERPILLAR SOUP offers an evening of story telling, revealing the transformational power of loss and celebrating life in all its messiness. Within the context of spinal cord injury, CATERPILLAR SOUP is a story of destiny and a powerful love unshaken by tragedy.

Written and performed by Lyena Strelkoff, CATERPILLAR SOUP reveals her two-year odyssey in search of wholeness after being paralyzed, and the ultimate triumph of her spirit. More than entertainment, CATERPILLAR SOUP is nourishment... for the mind, heart and soul.

Lyena will also be in residence at Sandglass from April 22-May 9 thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Performance Network. She will be available for workshops and discussions in schools and with community groups

For reservations please email info@sandglasstheater.org

or call (802) 387-4051