[NEohioPAL] Just one month until BorderLight Theatre Festival presents BLESSED UNREST

[nicole coury]

BorderLight Theatre Festival presents BLESSED UNREST: A Fantasia on Martha
Graham … with a side of vodka

Created by Anne J. McEvoy

This once-revered pioneer of modern dance stands alone in her abandoned
studio, confronting the agonizing stillness where movement once thrived.
Now caught in the starless twilight of her life, Martha Graham faces the
grim realities of life, as age, rheumatoid arthritis, and liquor erode her
career and the exceptionally disciplined body which defined her and her
technique. Through fragmented memories, she stumbles on flashes of triumph,
rejection, epiphany, romance, sacrifice, sacrilege, and facing loss of
control over her dancer’s instrument. Her mirror becomes adversary,
reflecting a self she no longer recognizes. Over the course of many ounces
of Smirnoff and a chaser or two of Nietzsche, she questions her worth
beyond the spotlight and wrestles with the loss of legacy and love. Still,
her desperation moves her to fan the dying ashes of a lifelong passion. A
brief, cautionary tale...with generous amounts of humor and fiction, and
hopefully more questions than answers...audiences are asked to reconsider
the frail, fickle lines between dreams, identity, and reality.



CONTENT ADVISORY: Audience Interaction, Depicted Drug/Alcohol Use,
Suicide/Self-Harm

SHOWTIMES:  Thu 7/9 @ 5:30PM, Sat 7/11 @ 1:30PM, 6:45PM

RECOMMENDED 18+

Tickets at:
https://www.borderlightcle.org/2026-show/blessed-unrest-a-fantasia-on-martha-grahams-demons/

Check out https://www.borderlightcle.org/ for additional festival
information and to plan your Borderlight experience.

See you there!
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