‘My Bronx’ musical makes European premiere in Tirana

TIRANA, Nov. 4 – My Bronx, an interdisciplinary theatre piece by Terry Jenoure, directed by Linda McInerney made its European premiere this week in Tirana. Drawing on decades of teaching and performance experience, the artists used music, movement and dramatic practices to guide attendees in the development of their artistic imaginations including the use of spontaneity, inventiveness and collaboration.
The musical made its premiere in Tirana on November 4 and 5 at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
Old Deerfield Production’s Linda McInerney says, “This piece is brave, expansive, intense, musical, playful, vibrant, and brimming with color and texture. The stories are woven together like a tapestry moving from past to present, while bringing the audience on a ride through her memory. It is an amazing amalgam of forms all emanating from Terry. She celebrates her Jamaican and Puerto Rican roots, her Jazz mastery, and her poetry, all while dancing with her hand-sewn dolls on the imagined streets of her transplanted home: the Bronx.”
In performance, My Bronx offers an alchemical interplay between structure and improvisation. Using her own flexible format to communicate her ideas to the other performers, Ms. Jenoure says, “I’ve made maps for the drummer and dancer that are independent of cues from the poems. It challenges the traditional roles of soloist and accompanist. Each artist works in her/his own world, but together, the effect gives birth to surprises.” In My Bronx, Jenoure’s love for stories gives voice to the ways transplanted cultural and familial threads reweave in a new place.