Different Ships, Same Boat at Workshop13!

Internationally touring performers Regie Gibson, Guy Mendilow & ensemble bring a spellbinding fusion of spoken word and music to our Grand Hall Stage! Powerful. Poignant. Unforgettable.

Tickets are available on a sliding scale. Get tickets at workshop13.org

Different Ships, Same Boat is an interactive, multidisciplinary performance combining powerful spoken word, music and song to explore the multifaceted ways Americans risk, live, love, and laugh. Unfolding through a series of chapters — each curating real-world stories — literary performer Regie Gibson (inaugural poet laureate of the Commonwealth of MA) and composer/storycatcher Guy Mendilow guide audiences with podcast-like narration, at turns humorous, poignant, or poetic, over an evocative musical score. With stories from small towns, cities and ports of entry, along with music spanning lyrical American Blues and songs from older homes from which today’s Americans came (e.g. Ottoman Jews from present-day Greece and Hungary), Different Ships, Same Boat offers a stirring exploration of the joys, tensions, and complexities of who we are and who we wish to be. As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Different Ships, Same Boat invites audiences to celebrate not only America but Americans. This is for those craving a powerful artistic performance of captivating music and stories — a moving, finely-crafted, anthology that connects audiences to American histories, perspectives, and experiences both familiar and different from their own.

This is a show not to be missed! Tell all of your friends!

This event is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts