Barbara Revalk & Ailie Ireland DupontSAD SAD CICADAS

An old house. Four cabaret performers and a ghost. They have lived and performed together for thirteen years. There, in that house, which has just been declared uninhabitable. In the draft, a disco ball spins slowly on its axis. A trumpet echoes through the halls. Glitter sneaks between the splinters and cracks. The ghost watches, and between the performances, the residents deal with the news. They encounter each other and themselves again. What tensions and heartache hang in the air? What history is being lost? How do they process the death of the house and their past thirteen years? 

With SAD SAD CICADAS, we search for meaning and togetherness when the spaces for it disappear. 

A poetic performance with performances, dialogue, music, and movement. A site-specific performance in an old building. A fiction that dares to be both spectacular and intimate.