Grief Cabaret: A Glamorous Mourning is a contemporary circus theatre show about grief and resilience. A hilarious spectacle of depth and brilliance directed by Amaya Alvarado and performed by Amaya Alvarado, Bevin Victoria, Cuream Jackson, Jacki Ward, Kate Law and Lacy Todd. Audiences will see beautiful and powerful performances using aerial arts, contortion, theatre, hair hanging, comedy, glitter, song, dance, and mourning. During pandemic times and beyond we have experienced a kind of collective grief worldwide over lives and livelihoods, over ways of being and being together, lost. Grief Cabaret: A Glamorous Mourning invites audiences to laugh, cry, and grieve alongside performers who explore many forms of grief and the ways in which it changes us.
Amaya’s Roles: Director, Producer, Performer
Audience Quotes
“This will live in my soul. It was the healing and realignment of my spirit I desperately needed. Thank you to all who made this incredible show make me laugh and literally sob.”
“Wow did we all mourn glamorously! What a beautiful unique show, helping bring the painful and tender parts of humanity into the light in downtown Portland!”
“Thank you thank you from the expanse of my heart and spirit for creating such a buoyantly heavy, brilliantly dark, and humorously human show.”