SYNOPSIS

Weaving together text and music from journal entries, poems, previous pieces, and voice memos by Karl Ronneburg and Grey Grant, The Precipice is a 100-minute abstract chamber-rock opera that explores our relationship with moments of transition. The "precipice" itself represents irreversible change: growing up, leaving home, moving on from past places, relationships, and visions of self. The show asks: is making ourselves a tragic act, a leap from the precipice, a great wrenching? Who or what do we leave behind when we move on from a relationship or place? And finally, do we do this alone? Is the formation of self an individual act or a collective one?

BAND

Daniel Johnson, Music Director

Clarinet: Eric Schweizer

Violin: Taylor Tookes

Cello: Julia Knowles

Electric Guitar: Jeremy Esquer

Electric Bass: Ben Willis

Piano, Toy Piano: Melissa Coppola

Percussion: Chris Sies

Sound Design: Peter Littlejohn

Marketing: Cameron Wilson

Front-of-house: Madeline Endres