The Bark and the Tree -Vivian Nesbitt's Biopic Odyssey

"The Bark & The Tree" written & performed by Vivian Nesbitt is a biopic sojourn into the playwright's Irish family tree that branches into the past while staying rooted in the present. Nesbitt's proclivity for the whiskey & the alcoholism & suicide that haunt her are & family are not the essence of what defines her. At 14, Nesbitt experienced her 1st black out. Her great-great-grandmother Eva Mary Kelly had her first poem published in Ireland at 14. Nesbitt is lured back to her ancestral homeland in Ireland by a dream of Eva chanting to her. Blustering with pride & ambition having just earned her MFA, Nesbitt travels to Ireland to connect with her past with aspirations for building upon a lineage of strength hoping for a brighter foothold into the future. Nesbitt's writing is elegiac and poetic. She magically shifts from her intimate conversation into eccentric characters she encounters on this mystical sojourn. The past, present merge, "History is as present as the ground under foot." Harsh realities co-exist with lyrical storytelling & chanting lit with a warm glow & a shot whiskey.