big bertha
Opus Number:
50
Music:
Music from the St. Louis Melody Museum collection of band machines
Set and Costumes:
Alec Sutherland
Lighting:
Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed:
November 6, 1970
Notes:
“A hair-raising, though provoking, brilliant work that starts out as hilarious comedy and ends as tragedy…It moves with inescapable power from innocent pleasures to incestuous rape” – Dorothy Samachson, Chicago Daily News
Photos: Paul B. Goode