Artists with Evidence presents

When the Smoke Clears

When the Smoke Clears is a chamber opera–poem set beneath the surface of a world undone by war. Fleeing the devastation above, people have descended underground, into the earth’s sheltering womb. There, in darkness and suspension, they sing.
Their voices carry songs of destruction, dissonance, dust, and fragile hope, moving to the rhythms of breath, seasons, and tectonic time. As they wait to resurface, they reckon with what happened—and what led them here. Intimate and elemental, When the Smoke Clears imagines a community not at the end of history, but buried inside its beginning: a seed waiting to rise, grow, and begin again.

Poems by Colin Greer
Music by N. Scott Johnson
Choreography by Alice Reys
Directed by Danilo Gambini

With
Victor Caccese
Chris Cardozo
Madeline Healey
N. Scott Johnson
Alice Reys

Light Design by Nic Vincent
Costume Design by David Mitsch

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