Concept Statement:

"Elizabeth Kubler Ross believed in ghosts. Her dad told her to be his secretary. She told him she was gonna be a doctor. Ross made up the stages of grief for the dying themselves, not for the ones they left behind?" - Cherry

​The lights in this show were absolutely crazy. A constant expression of the stages of grief and the inner thoughts of our characters. The pictures are out of order, out of context, and a little wild but I don’t feel that matters so much for this production. When we grieve we do not follow the stages of grief in order. Sometimes we don’t have to cry. We can handle our grief with a laugh, a smile, and a dad joke. As Ida summarized so beautifully Elizabeth Kuble

r Ross wrote the stages of grief for the dying and not as a tool for those living who are grieving, she did this because she believed everyone deserved dignity and relief. For me the Carlotta festival was a wonderful process from top to bottom and has completely changed my outlook on theatre making. A band? Fog? Rock and roll? Drama light? A garden you intend to tend? Why not?