Please note: A prop gun and gunshot sounds are used in the evening performances. The children's matinee on Saturday will have gunshot sounds. All performances will contain haze.
This Gospel House masterpiece addresses morality, spiritually, and the community that Rennie Harris grew up in. Raised a Catholic, Rennie often attended his neighbors’ Baptist church which inspired his love for gospel music. This work is set to the brilliant and overwhelming sounds of a live choir whose soulful singing moves the audience to tears. Joshua, the lead character of LIFTED, loses his parents in a car accident and moves in with his uncle and aunt. Quickly he finds himself in a precarious position when he decides to run away and join a gang. Forced to make hard decisions by facing down his demons, he eventually returns to his family and the church.
Direction, Choreography, & Written By
Lorenzo Rennie Harris
Lighting Design
Bob Steineck
Musical Composers
Raphael Xavier Darrin Ross
Sound Design, Musical Direction, & Production
Darrin Ross
Set Design Ben Levine |
Master Carpenter David Knepper |
Projections & Visual Design
David Dowling
Choir Alonzo Chadwick & Friends |
Narrator/Poet Wadud Ahmad |