MAINTENANCE

MAINTENANCE is a site-specific walking tour and narrative experience centering the untold stories and labor of sanitation workers. this performance examines the very notion of disposability, spurring consciousness around our responsibility for the waste we create and those who maintain it. audiences are invited to follow the route of GARBAGE MAN–a composite of many real sanitation workers from adapted source texts–and TRASH PROPHETESS, an ethereal oracle who accompanies him along the way.

hand kiss _ Cookie Estes.jpg
hands shaking _ Cookie Estes.jpg
garbage rope dance _ Cookie Estes.jpg
mopping _ Carolyn Hoerdemann.jpg
retrieving garbage rope _ Cookie Estes.jpg
rocking baby _ Cookie Estes.jpg
sitting together _ Cookie Estes.jpg
slow dance _ Cookie Estes.jpg
touching ground _ Cookie Estes.jpg
walking away _ Cookie Estes.jpg

production photos by Cookie Estes + Carolyn Hoerdemann

“But inside, I started praying. I prayed to go outside. I read a verse about streets of gold, another about a land flowing with milk and honey. “Do you ever get used to the smell?” People ask me that a lot. No. I don’t.”

Written + Directed by…………... Faith Hart

Presented by…………... Pivot Arts’ The Memory Place, produced by Eli Newell + Julieanne Ehre

Starring…………... Gráinne Ortlieb + Kamari Saxon

Costume Design by …………... Saskia Bakker

Stage Management by …………... Ashley Alexander

Production Images by…………... Cookie Estes + Carolyn Hoerdemann