HORIZON

Created, written and composed by Rinde Eckert.
Directed by David Schweizer.
June - July 2007

Rinde Eckert is renowned as a writer, composer, director, singer, actor and movement artist whose Opera / New Music Theatre productions have toured the world. In Horizon, Eckert plays Reinhart Poole, an unconventional theologian and teacher of ethics at a seminary. Reinhart, who has been pressured to resign by dogmatic powers within his church, works all night on his last class, his lectures, questions, and stories. He also talks with his wife, argues with the ghost of his brother, remembers conversations, and indulges his hobby: a comic allegory about two ageless masons who've been building the same church foundation for 1750 years. In story, song, movement, and music Reinhart, his family, and his strange masons inhabit a visually brilliant landscape, a moving and funny horizon. Boston's Patriot-Ledger says of Rinde Eckert, "If musical theater is to become once again an art capable of expressing the deepest, highest, most basic and most complex human emotions...Rinde Eckert is one of the people who may help make that happen."