This rock musical/opera is about love, loss, and life locked down into a loft space where the Bengsons perform and narrate their final hundred days together before losing the husband to disease. Salt pours from the sky that represents time running out and the salt flats they once visited together at night. The piece deals with weather in many ways as mail is delivered by the wind, maps are written in the dust on windows, rain falls to represent tears, loss, and second chances, and time is preserved in mason jars filled with photos and light like small ecosystems of the mind.
Hundred Days
Produced by Z-‐Space, World Premier in San Francisco February 2014
Music & Lyrics by: Abigail & Shaun Bengson
Book by: Kate E. Ryan
Directed by: Anne Kauffman
Set Design: Kris Stone
Costume Design: Christina Crook
Light Design: Allen Willner
Sound Design: Drew Yerys