Oratorio for Living Things
Written by Heather Christian
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Signature Theatre
October 4, 2025
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💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Heather Christian has written truly a divine experience in her Oratorio for Living Things.  It truly feels like more of a call to worship than any piece of theatre than I have ever experienced.  It is really impossible to define but I will do my best.  It is a classical choral masterwork infused with pop, blues and gospel. A dozen stunning vocalists and six incredible  instrumentalists make sense and aural spectacle out of Christian’s composition of this rich poetic text.  Because the lyrics are dense and can be difficult to parse (some parts are in Latin, sometimes it builds into cacophony) they even hand out hymnals out at the entrance to the theatre to follow along with the language, but I quickly put it back down on my lap as I didn’t want any one of my senses to miss the experience.