Only Remains Remain

Written and directed by Freya Powell

Performed at MoMA PS1 in 2021

Featuring Caroline Burkhart as a Lead Performer

Only Remains Remain, is a 15-person, immersive performance addressing a contemporary tragedy through the characters of Antigone. The performance uses the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to communicate an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants that were buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County, Texas. The chorus of women seeks to recognize the lives of those laid to rest as unknowns by addressing the silence of their burial and our complicity and grief in the process.

Photos by Marissa Alper & Walter Wlodarczyk