The end is in the beginning! The 15th and final performance of our In Search of Lost Time production will be at Basilica for Soundscape Festival.

Our production of In Search of Lost Time has aimed to conjure a sense of delight and playfulness creating a storytelling experience that uses the medium of minigolf as performance theater and interactive narrative with deeper themes of shared experience, of overcoming a sense of being behind in one's life, of being lost, and resiliency.

The initial spark for In Search of Lost Time came out of creating face shields in Basilica during lockdown. From the fire and ashes of disaster grew the seeds of friendship and minigolf art. When covid first hit, Bren Liam, and friends, helped to lead efforts to make face shields for a local hospital and nursing homes in the Hudson Valley, coordinating efforts across makerspaces, sourcing material from the local library system, and turning an art center, the Basilica, into a mass assembly line. After months of making face shields, we were happy to have served but run a little ragged. We needed a mental break and wanted a creative project that was purely silly and personal. The idea of building a gonzo minigolf course was born!

We have performed In Search of Lost Time in the middle of the woods, an alleyway, bars, a library, a drive-in theater, gallery spaces, a sculpture park, and artist residencies across Hudson Valley and NYC. From Prattsville to Wassaic, Athens to Brooklyn, we have traveled for a reason. The mobile and pop-up nature of our theater company was meant to stand in contrast to the stasis and confinement of lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic. Dreams were never meant to be static. They were meant to move us, to expand, to roam.

Four years after we started minigolf post-faceshields, returning to the sight that inspired so much creative fire amidst the darkness, there couldn't be a better ending to this story.

It's been whimsical. Thanks for playing!