Bygone Theatre had been preparing for an exciting production at the historic Campbell House Museum set to run in June 2020. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production needed to be delayed, and is now planned for April 2021, exact dates TBA.

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The Party Line is an ambulatory opera that invites audience members to move throughout Campbell House museum and witness musical vignettes, all set in different time periods and employing different styles of music, but connected by the themes of isolation and its relation to technology, in particular, the telephone. The title comes from the old "party line" telephones that existed in small communities, and allowed homes to have access to a phone without a private line. Anyone on the line could pick up and listen to a conversation, creating interesting dichotomies; distance and connection, privacy and display. The Party Line will tell small, intimate stories about larger issues of isolation and globalization, that, while they are often topics today, have existed for decades.