THE AGEE/EVANS PROJECTS
Words by Molly Rice
Music by Stephanie Johnstone
Directed by Rachel Chavkin

Inspired by James Agee and Walker Evans' now-classic 1936 work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, The Agee/Evans Project is a music-drenched chronicle of Agee and Evans’ descent into the nightmarish existence of three Alabama sharecropping families.  It explores Agee's tendency to simultaneously grieve, fetishize, and exalt abject need; the seepage of Walker's subjective vision into his seemingly objective images; and the deeply wounded relationship between America's "haves" and "have-nots."

1. "...the feeling of wanting to die for someone..."
2. The Beatitudes
3. Hillbilly Funhouse Excerpt
4. The Will To Live