The simplicity of Summer, 1976 makes it easy to minimize its value. Like most women we know, Diana and Alice are deeply flawed, laden with loneliness, and longing for more.

The versatile four-person cast is responsible for animating hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, dozens of two-dimensional props, and several hand puppets.

Hang Time forces you to bear witness, to lean in, to confront. It is a reckoning and a powerful call to action. It demands that you think about the lives these Black men deserved but didn’t get to have.

What Kissajukian didn’t know at the time was that he had been living with bipolar disorder, and he was about to enter into a brutal six-month manic episode that would completely sever him from reality. 

The experience unfolds primarily through monologue, music, and movement as you are led on a wild, unrestrained journey that is “part lyrical sermon, part political exorcism.”