Overview
- Composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman unveil a North American premiere that draws heavily on Mitchell’s original text.
- Critics commend Venables’s genre-hopping score and the robust choral sound led by music director Yshani Perinpanayagam.
- Reviews fault Huffman’s staging and editorial choices, citing diminished impact in the vast space and the cutting of notable passages from the book.
- A 15-member ensemble rotates as actors, storytellers, and musicians in a cabaret-like format spanning Baroque to contemporary styles.
- Coverage highlights a newly added assimilation storyline involving the military and marriage contracts that does not appear in the 1977 source.