FORCE! an opera in three acts

FORCE! an opera in three acts is the story of a group of women and femmes of color waiting to get into a prison and escape a memory-erasing mold. The opera follows archetypal characters found in the liminal space between the visitation room and the parking lot of any prison or jail, personified with names such as: Rage of the World, Who Knows, Down’n Batter’d, and Sorrowful Aimless Love, etc. This project explores what kind of relationships bloom in the shadow of the prison, imagining a strange sisterhood with the power to disintegrate walls. The opera’s cast and crew are entirely BIPOC-identified and majority queer, trans, and/or gender-nonconforming.