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Our Kickstarter launches November 18!
Help us raise the final dollars to raise the curtain on opening night!
Recipient of a 2025 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Grant
PREMIERING DECEMBER 2027
Show Dates: December 10+11, 17+18
(with possible added shows December 12+16)
AT COHO THEATER IN NW PORTLAND, OREGON
“This opera is a spiritual act.”
“It vividly captured the range of emotions of grief. It is a catharsis,”
'I have never experienced a work of art like this before. It is truly unique."
“Absolutely amazing." “Fantastic.” "Extraordinary.”
“The writing is funny! What a treat to laugh while I am grieving.”
“Somehow the first aria expressed exactly what it's like to be dead.”
“Such a beautiful work.”
“What a wonderful gift—a way to explore feelings that are totally beyond words.”
“It's going to impact everyone that experiences it.”
— Audience members attending the workshop mini-preview
Pushing the boundaries of creativity, ONE DEATH IN SEVEN DOORWAYS uses language and music, body and voice, vision and imagination in new ways to give the audience an intimate, personal, adventuresome opera experience. One speaking character is played by multiple actors, while the other character only sings. Solo instruments are liberated from the orchestra pit and join the characters on stage giving a distinctive and intimate voice to each character's emotions. The opera is composed in a collaborative process where each character and solo instrument has a dedicated composer and style. This opera invites you in—to the story and to yourself in the process. Exposing themes of grief and loss that illustrate our shared humanity,
One Death in Seven Doorways expands our minds and touches our hearts.
It is an exploration of the fracturing of time and self
which happens when someone we love suddenly dies,
and the ongoing relationship we have with our dead loved ones.
Please join us with your generous donation.
SUPPORT INNOVATIVE GENRE-BUSTING OPERA
PREMIERE DECEMBER 2027
We are currently raising funds for the premiere of the work.
Donations made through Fractured Atlas are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. One Death in Seven Doorways Creator Licity Collins is a sponsored project/artist of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Thank you for your contribution.