I'm with you in Rockland, Yale Cabaret 2015 Created by Kevin Hourigan with the Company Channeling the spirit of HOWL, Ginsberg's ecstatic lament over the plight of the artist, students from the Schools of Art, Drama, and Music come together to create a kaleidoscopic montage for our contemporary moment. I'm with you in Rockland is an interdisciplinary inquiry that uses song, image, and theater to ask: what is the value of the artist today?

I’m with you in Rockland: Yale Cabaret

“Howl,” a poem written in 1955 and published as part of his 1956 collection, “Howl and Other Poems,” is best remembered “as an ecstatic lament over the plight of the artist” in society, points out the Yale Cabaret. The downtown New Haven theater is mounting five performances of “I’m with you in Rockland,” inspired by Ginsberg’s life and work, including “Howl,”

Creative Team

Kevin Hourigan, director and production designer; Jason Najjoum and Rachel Shuey, co-producers; Elizabeth Mak, lighting designer; Nok Kanchanabanca, sound designer; Michael Commendatore, projections designer; Avery Trunko, stage manager; Rae Powell, technical director; Ian Gottlieb, Dylan Mattingly, composers; Baize Buzan, Ricardo Dávila, Lucie Dawkins, Tori Sampson, additional contributing writers

Performers: Josh Goulding, Alteronce Gumby, Kevin Hourigan, Helen Jaksch, Lynda Paul, Nahuel Telleria, Avery Trunko; Musicians: Ian Gottlieb, Fred Kennedy, Dylan Mattingly