FITS

United States

7 Hours Difference, Part II: Simple Present Tense

University of Michigan, Department of Theater and Drama

Directed by

Tatiana Sokolova

“7 Hours Difference” is an international collaboration project between New Bulgarian University in Sofia and University of Michigan, USA. We developed two works that bridge the gap between the genres of visual art, music, theater, and movement and explore similar themes and subject matters, but viewed from two very different cultures that are more than an ocean apart. How much does one need to be happy? – how many things, how much money, how much work, how much loneliness, how much care, how much dreaming, how much play…? But also, when is it too much, what happens when a line is crossed?

A choreographic metaphor about the need for communion in a world divided by visible and invisible borders.

Assistant Director: Tzveta Kassabova
Music: Michael Wall, Handel
Lighting Design: Jess Fialko
Costumes: Тatyana Sokolova, Tzveta Kassabova with the cast
Stage Manager: Jossie Ervin

Producers: University of Michigan

Cast: Audrey Andrews, Myah Bridgewater, Sam Hopkins, Zack Gergel, Ryland Gigante, Ella Lewis, Nathaniel McCanna, Constance (CC) Meade, James Parascandola

Duration: 1h 10min

Performance in English, with translation into Romanian.

Date of premiere: 26.09.2024

Original title: 7 Hours Difference, Part II: Simple Present Tense
United States
The American Season