Hear Here Walla Walla
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HEAR HERE WALLA WALLA is a listening line, created in order to share more broadly excerpts from the interviews featured in the play "Because You Are Here". The phone line contains compilations of interview responses falling under the categories of Belonging, Exclusion, Courage, Change, Tradition, Invisibility, Legacy, the Sunrise, and One Last Thing.
This video features footage from Because You Are Here, a performance based on interviews with immigrant and first generation members of the Walla Walla, Washington community. Typically a theatre production will begin with a script written by a playwright. Devised theater inverts this classic hierarchy and instead this work was written by the members of the cast with input from all our community partners. Because You Are Here embodies questions and experiences of migration that are shaping our nation and our small community of Walla Walla—an agricultural community with a thriving wine and food production industry that has relied heavily on migrant labor for decades. We asked our neighbors to share their moments of exclusion and belonging, invisibility and courage. We then invited those interviewees to contribute as collaborators, editors, observers and creators in the theatre-making process.
Because You Are Here is a project co-created by the Whitman College Department of Theater and Dance's Devised Theater course in collaboration with members of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition as well as immigrants in our community. This work is sponsored by the Whitman College Innovation in Teaching and Learning fund and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, diversifying the curriculum through community engagement.
Ideated & facilitated: Jessica Cerullo & Tia Kramer
Written by: Jessica Cerullo, Emma Cooper, Francisco Esquivel, Madeline (Maddy) Gold, Erina Horikawa, Tia Kramer, Evan Marks, Donovan Olsen, Sabina Rogers, Dani Schlenker, Mira Skladany
Our production was comprised of interviews with 10 members of the Walla Walla community who co-authored this show with us: Amanda, Ana, Fernando, Leon, Luis Mendez, Luna, Mariela Rosas, Paco, Sandy Garcia, Ursula Volwiler.
Performed by: Emma Cooper, Francisco Esquivel, Madeline (Maddy) Gold, Erina Horikawa, Polly Officer, Donovan Olsen, Sabina Rogers, Matthew Schetina, Dani Schlenker, Mira Skladany
Directed by Jessica Cerullo
Social Choreographer Tia Kramer
Music Direction and Composition Gary Grundei
Video documentation Tristan Rupert
Trailer editing Donovan Olsen
Polly Officer and Maddy Gold sing an excerpt from Lhasa de Sela's song "Anywhere on This Road".
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