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Bad World
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Crave Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Bad World, a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful new musical about the experience of survivors of sexual assault. With music by James Liptak and Kylie Jenifer Rose and lyrics by Kylie Jenifer Rose and Jennifer Provenza, Bad World boasts a dynamic and nuanced score that fuses rock, folk, jazz, and musical theatre.
Bad World follows the coming-of-age journey of Rose, an ambitious young woman who was sexually assaulted in Paris while traveling for a research project. After returning to the United States, Rose finds herself haunted by her past; in desperation, she joins a support group for survivors of sexual assault, led by the fiercely protective Zaria. While she initially struggles to share her experience, Rose is eventually carried away by her memory, and her past ebbs, flows and intermingles with the present of Zaria, the charming, level-headed Langston, and the sweet, sensitive Linnea. A fluid exploration of trauma, mental health, grief, healing, and growth, Bad World is the story of four survivors brought together by pain but inspired by a need for change.