Charlie Brown / Our Town
excerpt from Charlie Brown / Our Town – Act I Part 2: Azisa is Emily, Dennis is George, Multimedia, 2013
![excerpt from Charlie Brown / Our Town – Act I Part 2: Azisa is Emily, Dennis is George, Multimedia, 2013](https://allisonbolah.com/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Our_Town_GandE-e1489678871219.jpg)
I hear bells ringing when I listen to my Jamaican mother and aunts in conversation. When I think of my Canadian sister and I talking, I hear pianos playing an abstract score. And, as a child, I swore I could make out what Charlie Brown’s teacher was saying! Working in collaboration with producer Lister Rossel, I explore the musicality of speaking and accents and the meaning of ‘American’ and ‘English’ in this re-staging and recasting of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
![still from Charlie Brown / Our Town - Act I Part 1: Ornella is Mrs. Gibbs, Maria is Mrs. Webb, Multimedia, 2013 -](https://allisonbolah.com/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Gibbs_Webb.jpg)
![still from Charlie Brown / Our Town - Act II: Carlotta is Mrs. Soames, Multimedia, 2013 -](https://allisonbolah.com/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Soames.jpg)
![still from Charlie Brown / Our Town - Act III: Sree is The Stage Manager, Multimedia, 2013 -](https://allisonbolah.com/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Stage_Manager.jpg)