The Vicksburg Project

The Vicksburg Project traces the experiences of women and gender-expansive people in Vicksburg, Mississippi, a small city pivotal to the painful history of our country.

How can we speak honestly about what happened in this place that haunts us still? Can we create a sanctuary where grieving together is possible, or where healing becomes imaginable?

Originally imagined by composer and long time Mabou Mines collaborator Eve Beglarian as a song cycle, the project grew beyond the confines of that form when writer/performer Karen Kandel and director Mallory Catlett joined the collaboration.

Through deeply researched and resurrected stories, as well as material based on the creators’ own experiences as women — black and white, straight and gay, the descendants of enslavers and the enslaved – The Vicksburg Project acknowledges the humanity in every person’s story.