The Josephine footnote

The Josephine footnote wonders, with music, dance and spoken words, how and why people came to create the notion of permanence in both geo-politics and in love, and what exactly to do when things, people, and nations disappear.

Inspired by historical records, folktales and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 epic poem “Evangeline,” The Josephine footnote is a multi-disciplinary theater work about the fictitious colony of Josephine that vanished without a trace in the middle of the 18th century. A unique culture that developed its own language and customs over a period of 300 years, Josephine has become so obscure to history that the only known reference to her is a tiny footnote in a tired, never-published dissertation by a doctoral candidate whose name has been lost.

Part of The Berkshire Fringe.