Living and Dead: The Gettysburg Project

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New Music New College presents Living and Dead: The Gettysburg Project. What is the cost of social division? What price unity? These questions lie at the heart of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and they inspired Margaret Eginton and Stephen Miles in 2009 to create Living and Dead, a work of experimental theater. Employing movement and vocal sound, both with text and without, Living and Dead will be performed by a small ensemble of New College students, with the audience seated in the round, in our College Hall Music Room. Over a decade after its first performance, NMNC will revive this work for a different moment in our political life, one in which unity can seem unattainable.