Saints and Supernaturals

Christina McPhee

Performing Arts Center
October 22, 2024 - June 30, 2025

Saints and Supernaturals

The house lights dim and the audience quiets. Stage lights fade up through theatrical haze, like a sunset weaving marine fog and the light of the gods, through Harold Miossi Hall, as the performance begins. From Sam Cooke to Saint Francis, Persephone to Saint Cecilia, the Saints and Supernaturals stand upstage in silhouette. This ragtag band of energies, raucous, and revenant beings are the pillars of the scene. In silence, Goddess Athena travels downstage, slowly stepping barefoot across this sacred ground, while Persephone, entering from the underworld, takes center stage, commanding the space. Effervescent and evocative music commences, and the lights intensify. The characters move through a series of solos and duets, with poignant moments of stillness juxtaposed by crescendos of exuberance in unison. Stigmata, slithering like salamanders, hunt for Saint Francis. Mothra jetés through the scene, fixating her sights on Saint Lucy, her eyes on a plate. Sam Cooke sings ‘and I shall be healed.’ In the distance, a crowd shouts in celebration, ‘Cecilia! Cecilia!’ hailing the new queen of mercy and music, culminating the scene. The Saints and Supernaturals gather downstage in reverence and conclusion as the lights slowly fade…