Blindspot Collective’s ‘Another Day in Paradise’ is based on interviews with more than 100 local unhoused people
A world-premiere documentary play with music titled “Another Day in Paradise” is illuminating and amplifying the plight of an ever-growing community in San Diego: the unhoused.
The music is composed by Taylor Lehmkuhl, who incorporated lyrics word-for-word from interviews of unhoused people done by McCarty, Hefner, Abi Hood and Hannah Frederick .“Some are based on individual people, some are based on a couple of people who had shared, similar experiences,” said McCarty. “In the show they communicate practically entirely in the exact words and stories from the interviews.
Dacara Seward, left, Tash Gomez, Velvet Teressa Salgado, Nathan Nonhof and Josalyn Elisabeth are cast members in Blindspot Collective’s world premiere play “Another Day in Paradise. Composer Lehmkuhl, who came to San Diego from Chicago where she was educated and trained as a musical artist, also has a background of working at a women’s shelter and a food bank.
The cast of nine in “Another Day in Paradise” features Jasper Capalad, Cole Chinn, Josalyn Elisabeth, Tash Gomez, Josiah Lopez, Aiden Meyndert, Nathan Nonhof, Velvet Teresa Salgado and Dacara Seward.
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