The Water Project (Immersive) (2017)
TheatreTruck & The Swift River Valley Historical Society present: THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE) a site-specific theatrical journey with live music Written by Emma Ayres Directed by Emma Ayres & Brianna Sloane SEPTEMBER 22-24 @ 6:30 & 8:30 PM at The Swift River Valley Historical Society 40 Elm Street, North New Salem, just west of Rt. 202. |
Live theater joins forces with the Pioneer Valley’s thriving independent music scene in this original immersive production, created by TheatreTruck Collaborator Emma Ayres. Immerse yourself in the currents of time in this story of the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir. The water is rising.
Newspaper headlines read: 4 towns flooded, 2,500 people relocated, houses moved on the backs of trucks, 7,500 graves dug up and reburied on higher ground, memories drowned, and little know…
THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE) submerges the audience in the final week of the decision making-process: to flood or not to flood the Swift River Valley in service of providing clean water to rapidly growing Boston. The audience is invited to explore the story unfolding around them in this theatrical journey. Faced with imminent flooding, the Doubleday family confronts the end of life and home as they know it, while anxiety rises and rumors walk the halls.
This project is possible thanks to the generous funding from the Amherst, Pelham, Shutesbury, Wendell, New Salem and Orange Cultural Councils, local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Thanks to our sponsors The Garlic & Arts Festival, the UMass Department of Theater and our many Indigogo Backers.
Thanks to our sponsors The Garlic & Arts Festival, the UMass Department of Theater and our many Indigogo Backers.