At a funeral reception, a grieving family attempts to commemorative a relative’s troublesome life. Overwhelmed by a torrent of sharp feeling unexpected secrets, sealed frustrations, a forbidden loves agitated revealed themselves; and the family for better or for worse is reborn.
A story composed through pictorial symbolism physicality, live music, and text, this interdisciplinary piece explores relationships predetermined by obsession, discontent, and sexual abuse, which debates family values and the damaging limits of our behavior.
Confronting our inherited legacy as a means of survival, provides the generative theme of the piece, spanning from personal to the collective.
Nuria Legarda
