Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Tour

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is a poetic chamber play performed in Artist Tim Stapleton’s haunting gallery installation Black Ribbon Roads. The play and artwork merge past and present as they document his journey home to the Appalachian Mountains after a heartbreaking 30 year separation. The skilled four person ensemble brings to light his childhood baptism into a strict southern church and the abuse that follows. Haunting and healing the artwork and performance reveal a fascinating struggle to happiness and sexual identity.

Performance Package
IFCC sends Tim Stapleton, playwright and actor as well as the ensemble to recreate the original performance within the visual installation: Black Ribbon Roads.

Add On Options
1) Two-hour autobiographical writing workshop with Tim Stapleton and Director, Eugenia Woods
2) Spolin Theatre Workshop with ensemble member, Adrienne Flagg, who is trained by Paul Sills, son of Viola Spolin.
3) One week of intensive workshops and classes with Tim & Eugenia

Student Workshop & Performance Package
IFCC sends Tim Stapleton and Director, Eugenia Woods, for three weeks. During that time they will rehearse a cast of your actors for your school or theatre for a weekend of performances with Tim as well as teach workshops on devised, autobiographical theatre and design.

Add On Option:
1) Visual Installation