for our friends:

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find a place to watch and look out, a cliff by the beach, an edge in the sunlight

​chase that open empty, the feeling of turning a corner, the boundary of now and whenever

​this is two parallel lives, this is in and out (and in and out) of love,

this is leaving and jumping and getting lost and maybe moving on

​this is our precipice:

"roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open" - Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Weaving together text and music from journal entries, poems, and voice memos by Karl Ronneburg and Grey Rose Grant, THE PRECIPICE is a 100-minute abstract chamber-rock opera that tells the story of two parallel journeys of becoming and self-mythologizing, from both a trans/queer perspective and a cis/straight one. The "precipice" itself represents irreversible change–growing up, leaving home, and moving on from past places, relationships, and visions of self. The show asks: is making ourselves a tragic act, a leap from the precipice, a great wrenching? How do the metaphors and myths by which we construct our identity hold us back? How do you leave behind a relationship, place, or vision of self without losing the part of it that made you who you are? And finally, do we do this alone? Is the formation of self an individual act or a collective one?