
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
Witness one woman's journey on the road to madness in the one-act interpretation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, divided into thirteen fated 'journal entries scored for two voices, dancer, and chamber ensemble.
The story depicts the effect of extreme loneliness and solitude, common to women of that station, on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. She becomes obsessed with the wallpaper: "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper – the smell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell."


RECORDINGS
& MEDIA
PERFORMANCE
HISTORY
June 10 & 11th, 2016 -
DiMenna Center, New York
with Fresh Squeezed Opera
& The Curiosity Cabinet
June 4th, 2010* -
Virginia Arts Festival
John Duffy Institute Fellows
March 28th, 2010 -
the TANK, New York
with The Curiosity Cabinet
March 18th, 2010 -
Gershwin Theater
Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
with The Curiosity Cabinet
November 23, 2009* -
Levenson Recital Hall
Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
with the conTempo ensemble
*denotes selections
INSTRUMENTATION
The Curiosity Cabinet:
Lindsey Eckenroth, flute
Lee Braun, oboe
Mara Mayer, bass clarinet
Charlotte Munn-Wood, violin
Pat Muchmore, 'cello
Justin Lee, double bass
Joe Tucker, mallet percussion
Michael Lupo, aux. percussion
Isabelle (Izzy) O'Connell, harpsichord
Melinda Faylor, celeste
Whitney George, conductor
Fresh Squeezed Opera:
Denise Crawfort: soprano
Ryan Hill: baritone
PRODUCTION
produced by
Fresh Squeezed Opera [2016]
Christine Duncan:
choreographer & dancer
Aaron Blankfield:
theatrical co-director
Victoria Benson:
theatrical co-director
























