UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
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August 4th-6th, 2023
Rescue, Inc. 541 Canal St, Brattleboro, VT 05301 Click here for more information and ticket reservations |
July 23, 2023
Yale New Haven Center for EMS 77 Willow Street, New Haven, CT, 06511 Closed performance - YNHH Center for EMS staff and guests only |
After responding to a fatal overdose of one of their own, rural EMTs and paramedics question the repetitive trauma and stress of their work. Based on EMS provider stories gathered across the US from 2016-2018, this project grapples with the unique challenges faced by emergency medical responders.
First responders in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are ten times more likely to contemplate suicide than the national average. The most common reasons responders leave the field are burnout and psychological trauma as a result of repeated exposure to traumatic events. Join Faultline Ensemble for a live continuing education performance about rural EMS providers struggling with and finding paths through trauma. Counting Pebbles was developed from interviews, anonymous stories, artwork, physical improvisation and the artists' experience as health workers and creators of collaborative performances.
Created in partnership with the Code Green Campaign and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, Counting Pebbles received its first work-in-progress performance in March 2019 at Yale University in New Haven, CT, and is now touring to rural ambulance services. Read more about the original production here, or read a review of the performance here. We draw inspiration from the fields of community-based performance, narrative medicine, physical performance, trauma stewardship, drama therapy and theater of the oppressed. The project hopes to validate the unique struggles of first responders, and to celebrate the resilience, cohesion and pride that exist in the first responder community.
Initially workshopped during a residency at the CoHo Productions Summer Workshop Lab in Portland, OR, and performed for the first time at the Yale Cabaret, this ongoing collaborative process explores experiences of first responders struggling with and finding paths through trauma. It is also the subject of a public health masters thesis by director Taiga Christie, "Carrying Pebbles: Towards trauma informed theater with emergency medical responders."
This project was originally conceived by Faultline Ensemble with the support of Ann Marie Farina of the Code Green Campaign, and the CoHo Summer Workshop Lab residency. We have received funding from the Network of Ensemble Theatres Travel Grant program, the City of New Haven Mayor's Community Arts Grants Program, the InnovateHealth Yale Fund, the Tsai CITY Center, the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law, the Yale Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Fund, the Yale MacMillan Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Responses, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Brattleboro Town Arts Fund, and individual donors. We are so grateful for their support.
Want to support our project? Here are ways to be involved:
First responders in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are ten times more likely to contemplate suicide than the national average. The most common reasons responders leave the field are burnout and psychological trauma as a result of repeated exposure to traumatic events. Join Faultline Ensemble for a live continuing education performance about rural EMS providers struggling with and finding paths through trauma. Counting Pebbles was developed from interviews, anonymous stories, artwork, physical improvisation and the artists' experience as health workers and creators of collaborative performances.
Created in partnership with the Code Green Campaign and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, Counting Pebbles received its first work-in-progress performance in March 2019 at Yale University in New Haven, CT, and is now touring to rural ambulance services. Read more about the original production here, or read a review of the performance here. We draw inspiration from the fields of community-based performance, narrative medicine, physical performance, trauma stewardship, drama therapy and theater of the oppressed. The project hopes to validate the unique struggles of first responders, and to celebrate the resilience, cohesion and pride that exist in the first responder community.
Initially workshopped during a residency at the CoHo Productions Summer Workshop Lab in Portland, OR, and performed for the first time at the Yale Cabaret, this ongoing collaborative process explores experiences of first responders struggling with and finding paths through trauma. It is also the subject of a public health masters thesis by director Taiga Christie, "Carrying Pebbles: Towards trauma informed theater with emergency medical responders."
This project was originally conceived by Faultline Ensemble with the support of Ann Marie Farina of the Code Green Campaign, and the CoHo Summer Workshop Lab residency. We have received funding from the Network of Ensemble Theatres Travel Grant program, the City of New Haven Mayor's Community Arts Grants Program, the InnovateHealth Yale Fund, the Tsai CITY Center, the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law, the Yale Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Fund, the Yale MacMillan Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Responses, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Brattleboro Town Arts Fund, and individual donors. We are so grateful for their support.
Want to support our project? Here are ways to be involved:
- We are exploring future touring performances to ambulance bays across America. If you would like to see Counting Pebbles come to your town or EMS agency, please get in touch – we would love to find ways to partner.
- Get in touch to share a story or opinion. We are invested in incorporating a wide range of perspectives and input. We welcome your ideas.
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