THE IN[HEIR]ITANCE PROJECT: EXODUS COASTAL VIRGINIA

A devised/new play development.

An examination of the history and lived experiences of the people of Hampton Roads in relationship to the themes and narrative of the book of Exodus. The Coastal Virginia Exodus Play is an original play created and developed with the 757/Hampton Roads community that will be shaped and refined with the cast.

Led by The InHEIRitance Project, a national arts organization, the project's playmakers will infuse their experiences into this completely original, hyper-local script about the 7 cities - Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News and Virginia Beach - and their relationships with each other historically, as imagined through the lens of a family gathering.

A final play will premiere at the Virginia Arts Festival in May 2022 at the Attucks Theater.  

Community Partners/Orgs:

Invited into the production process as a 'local' artistic collaborator with the primary focus of maintaining the cultural integrity of this newly devised piece.

•  Breaking down scenes to develop characterizations 

• Co-facilitating artist salons to gather content and context for our developing script 

• Collaborating creatively with the actors, producers and technical designers to build the show from the ground up 

• Documenting and analyzing creative practices using written notes, digital archival methods, performance 

'Devising' is building a theatrical production through a process where a creative team develops a show collaboratively with each contribution serving the narrative/story/plot as a whole. (ATHE)

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