Friday, May 24, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
“Crossing the Veil and Coming Back to Life”
Presenting an ensemble theater piece based on the true stories of people who have reported near death experiences. The stories follow a travel journey narrative starting with the “moment of death” when the characters have been declared clinically dead or experienced a medical crisis that brought them to the edge of death. This leads to a crossing of the veil between life and death and profound experiences and visions of life in the post-mortem realms. The journey concludes with a return to physical life and the challenges of sharing the experience with others and integrating it into their lives.
The piece is a new work conceived by Robert Cornett and directed by Ted Pugh. It has been performed by an ensemble theater group, based in the Hudson Valley, New York, to multiple audiences over the past year including at the annual conference of the International Association of Near Death Studies in Washington, DC. These remarkable and powerful stories have brought to audiences a sense of the beauty, wonder and hope about what the continuity of consciousness and life after death may be like.
Eddie Allen, Robert Cornett, Laurie Portocarrero, Vincent Roppolo, Dasana Smyth
Madison Shulkin, Lyla Rivers and Ted Pugh (Director)
- A discussion will follow the performances that allow us to talk about the piece and take questions.
“Watching Crossing the Veil and Coming Back Again was life changing for me.
The intimate staging drew me deeply into the astonishing and powerful
stories of these five people, all distinct and different but all describing
such similar near-death experiences. Having seen this play, I find my
perspective on life and death has widened and deepened. I hope that many,
many people get to see this play.”
“This was an amazing experience. The way that each actor told their story
was so powerful. I just got lost in it and each actor became their character
so completely that I had to remind myself at the end that they weren’t
describing their own experiences. There were lots of moments of silence in
our car on the way home and then bursts of questions and responses! Thank
you for a very special experience!”
“You really hit a great need of our times with this play, very special to
have so many people come to see it and all being deeply moved. Thanks for
this special gift!”