We are excited to be back at The Greenhouse Project in Scranton, PA to perform ‘Decompositions’.

Doors open at 6:30 pm for a reception and there will be a Q&A following the performance.

Tickets are $10. Click HERE to purchase!

This performance is made possible by the Lackawanna County Arts & Culture Department.

Written and performed by Kowalchuk, the song-filled monologue explores decomposition as a metaphor for life. Featuring a compost pile at center stage, the performance begins with excerpts from the Gertrude Stein essay, "Composition as Explanation," providing an entry into the existential monodrama.

Employing her devised theatre practice and her agrarian life as a farmer, Decompositions is an original song-filled, multimedia performance that digs into birth, death, farming, art, ageing, and transformation.

In this deeply personal theatrical meditation, Kowalchuk explores the composting process as analogous to the process of her own aging-- at one point in the performance, she tosses a “finished” sunflower onto the compost pile and describes the biological composting process which ultimately leads to the creation of humus --a word that shares the Latin root with “human.”  

Kowalchuk’s humorous and poignant stories, songs and physical theatre  skills, take audiences on a journey of longing to accept mortality as elegantly as the compost does its transformation.

Written and performed by Tannis Kowalchuk, “Decompositions” is created in collaboration with director Mimi McGurl, songs by Rima Fand, beats and soundscapes by Janhavi Pakrashi, music by the Farm Arts Collective, and projections by visual artist Phyllis Lehrer. Technical director is Jess Beveridge.

Decompositions is a production of Farm Arts Collective. It has played at Mondo Bizarro in New Orleans, Wessley College, Bus Stop Theatre Halifax, Nova Scotia, River Clyde Arts PEI,  Art Space Bay of Fundy, National Sawdust Williamsburg, NYC, Pontine Theatre in Portsmouth, NH ,Goddard Arts, NYC,  Ecological City NYC, The Cooperage in Honesdale, PA, Wunderbarn, Clear Creek Creative in Berea, Kentucky.