The Parkville Project opened at the Playhouse
on Park in West Hartford, CT on July 7, 2010.
In October 2008, Artistic Director of Bated Breath Theatre Company Helene Kvale led a team of theatre practitioners on a journey of anthropological proportions to Parkville, Hartford. They talked to people on the streets, to business owners, senior citizens to local politicians. They researched, explored, collaborated and created The Parkville Project incorporating professional and community actors in a devised, promenade piece. Weaving together original text, movement, and puppetry, The Parkville Project tells the story of an undocumented worker caught up in an Immigration Customs Enforcement raid in Hartford. As her life is thrown into relief she is faced with tough choices, comic characters and enduring memories.