From Michael Beeman's article July 14, 2012:
Children in the Mist follows a plot-line familiar to anyone even loosely acquainted with King’s writing: the average inhabitants of Anywhere, Maine, are visited by the supernatural when an ominous mist rolls in from the sea. The townsfolk shore up at the local grocery story, the setting for much of the opera’s action, and wait for the mist to clear. It doesn’t. They panic. Soon the townsfolk find themselves fighting each other as well as the supernatural creatures that begin attacking them from the mist at night.
The crew finds inventive ways to use light, darkness, and obfuscation to create atmosphere in a spare set (But no mist! None!). The shrieks come mostly from the stage, but each is answered in turn with a hearty laugh from the audience (a note to horror opera producers: half a corpse is more terrifying than a full corpse any day). Although audiences of Children in the Mist are unlikely to leave clamoring for further operatic adaptations of King’s entire catalog, they will have to admit they had fun watching innovative Riverbend Opera Company’s clever mash-up.
... we left during the first intermission... the only reason we stayed that long was for Alexandra Friendly,
wife of my buddy from highschool, Oliver, and bff of my bff, Alley. They could give a theatrical critique which I don't have the expertise. All I know is Alex was awesome and the dude who played the shop-keeper was so amazingly over-the-top. maybe that's what opera is supposed to be?
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