THE SCENES - 2023 PREMIERE

SCENE 1 - The Tour Guides, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman: "Don’t be scared Don’t touch the water Don’t get in the water Don’t drink the water"

SCENE 1 - The Tour Guides, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 1 - The Tour Guides, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 2 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman: "Oh, is this a boat trip? Curious locals accessing the hidden waterways of New York City? Some kind of art adventuring thing, huh? Well, let me introduce myself. I am Citizen Scientist, and my assistant, and very close friend, Citizen Scientist 2."

SCENE 2 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 2 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 2 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 3 - The Developers, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman: "Hang with us, chill out Have a micro, a nitro a brine, a biotic a switchel, a shrub, a feral-strained, forage-forward slightly fizzy semi-hard kam-bu-cha"

SCENE 3 - The Developers, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 3 - The Developers, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 4 - Conrad Vanwalt, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman: "1890 and the teeming has hit high tide I have a dream of a sanitary city, clean, safe Manhattan City"

SCENE 4 - Conrad Vanwalt, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 4 - Conrad Vanwalt, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 4 - Conrad Vanwalt, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 4 - Conrad Vanwalt, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 5 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 5 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman: "You people, you won’t turn back? Villains, visitors, wastrel haters, Gentrifiers! I must blow, blow up your digester eggs"

SCENE 5 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 5 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 5 - The Citizen Scientists, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 6 - The Creek Being, Photo Credit Saeid Janaati; Costumes Heather Freedman: "Pools of glistening oil make A perfect mirror: the city skyline Or your faces peering down Disguise, dredge Benzene, Dioxin, and Cesium"

SCENE 6 - The Creek Being, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 6 - The Creek Being, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 6 - The Creek Being, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman

SCENE 6 - The Creek Being, Photo Credit Walter Wlodarczyk; Costumes Heather Freedman