Emily Wells - Mirror Father - a workshop performance

For the past several years Emily Wells has been knocking on the door of an opera. Each year the door cracks open a little wider, the story gets louder, and the collaborators become clearer. This opera is a story about remaking the past in order to understand, and perhaps change, the future. It’s a conversation between a “mirror father” living the life he might have lived had he come out in the early 80s instead of living a closeted life, and his “phantom daughter” who he begins dreaming about. T