A dark Garage #4 scene from Boitatá with glowing purple light, balloons, and hundreds of small colored eye shapes across the set.Photo: T. Charles Erickson
2020 · 195 Everit Street

Boitatá

A Broken Umbrella artists contributed Garage #4, one of ten scenes in East Rock Halloween Project's socially distanced Boitatá.

2020

Live performance during COVID-19

Boitatá was built as a masked, socially distanced outdoor garage-to-garage Halloween performance at a moment when live theater was severely limited by the pandemic.

Photos

Boitatá: Garage #4, East Rock Halloween and A Broken Umbrella Theatre. Left to right: Rachel Alderman and Isaac Bloodworth. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Featuring Rachel Alderman, Isaac Bloodworth

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2020

Live performance during COVID-19

Boitatá was built as a masked, socially distanced outdoor garage-to-garage Halloween performance at a moment when live theater was severely limited by the pandemic.

Press & Reviews

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Arts Paper / Arts Council of Greater New Haven2020

Post-performance coverage of East Rock Halloween Project’s Boitatá and the multi-artist, garage-to-garage Halloween production.

Boitatá Takes Over Halloween Night
New Haven Independent2020

Preview coverage of Boitatá as a coalition of theater professionals creating a socially distanced East Rock Halloween experience.

Boitatá Halloween
WTNH News 82020

Television coverage of New Haven-based artists creating a trick-or-treat live performance during COVID-19.

New Haven-based artists set out to save Halloween