Wounded Splendor
A new production by David Gonzalez
“David Gonzalez speaks with courageous humanity and brilliant creativity, his poetry and stories uplift the spirit and inspire wonder.” — Deepak Chopra
“Mr. Gonzalez has
the gift of creating
magical worlds and
drawing his audience
into them.”
— New York Times
"Inspired and wonderfully evocative. Gonzalez is approximately a Nuyorican Gil Scott- Heron but with his own distinctive voice." – The Orange County Register
“Picture a Puerto Rican version of Bill Cosby or imagine what Garrison Keillor would be like if he’d been Latino.” – The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY
Inspired by recent sojourns to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the rain forests of Costa Rica, the glaciers of Alaska, and the length of the Hudson River, storyteller/poet David Gonzalez’s new multi-media production brings together images from our world near and far, poetry and monologues inspired from interviews with activists and experts in the environmental movement, and the music of composer and pianist Daniel Kelly. Wounded Splendor celebrates the beauty of nature and advocates for Earth stewardship and active preservation in our times of rampant pollution and environmental destruction. “My wish is to cause people to reflect on the natural world, to reconsider their place within it, and their responsibility to it.”
...celebrates the beauty of nature...
Wounded Splendor was originally commissioned by University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as part of an in-depth community engagement project for their 2008 – 2009 season titled “Performance as Politic/Artist as Activist”.