Albuquerque Military Veterans and Family Members Perform their Stories of Service in Telling, Albuquerque
Location: South Broadway Cultural Center
Dates / Times: September 11, 13, 19, 20 – 7pm
September 14, 21 – 2pm
Free to the Public
In 2014, The Telling Project w ill produce 8 original performances: Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Baltimore, MD; Albuquerque, NM; San Antonio, TX; Austin, TX; College Station, TX; and New York, NY. More than 70 military veterans and military veterans will speak to audiences of tens of thousands around the country.
Albuquerque, NM, is the third host for The Telling Project’s 2014 season, and is co-produced by the Museum of the American Military Family, in collaboration with Working Group Theater, underwritten by the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
Cast members include individuals who served in the Navy, Army, and Air Force. Audiences will hear stories from Vietnam combatants and conscientious objectors, women who served a full career in the military, as well as reflections by family members of military personnel. From helicopters, to ships, to the jungle floor; from broadcasting live through rocket fire, to playfully clanking bombs together in warehouses; from intimate battles to come to terms with experiences a lifetime ago, to the transformations that follow; Telling, Albuquerque will speak to a diverse range of military and military family experiences. All performers are Albuquerque residents who, wanting their communities to understand who they are and what they have undertaken over the last half-century.
Timed to coincide with the anniversary of September 11th, Telling, Albuquerque is a an opportunity to engage the Albuquerque area in an intimate, complex, and richly various conversation concerning military experience, veterans, military families, and war in a moment when the nation is contemplating these matters.
No press opening will be held, although access to rehearsals, interviews with cast and crew, and background information on The Telling Project and Telling, Albuquerque can be arranged in advance of the performance by contacting:
Max Rayneard, The Telling Project
541 556 4368
Max@thetellingproject.org
http://thetellingproject.org
“We hear about war on the news, but we don’t hear the personal side, up-close, from those who lived it. That’s about to change.” Kyle Taylor, Baltimore Sun.
“Go see this play.” Mike Rosenberg, Washington Post.
“The best performance of the season, hands down.” Ben Waterhouse, Willamette Week, Portland, OR, 2010.
