My Life... In Smithereens
A look at a family's place in history
"My Life... In Smithereens" is a compelling, sometimes disturbing, often funny, aural history as told by a New England father to his sons.
Unlike the dusty family photo album, its narrative gives its characters depth and dimension.
You listen as if reading a novel, but the people are real. Their stories are both extraordinary and ordinary. This is the story of one family, but its parallels are in every branch of the American family. "My Life... In Smithereens" compels you to look at your own dusty photos with a new curiosity. On the surface is an ordinary man, beneath is a rich story woven into the American life.
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The story, an extraordinary journey begins
It started as just a small project. Marc Smith had asked his sons, both in their twenties, what they wanted for their birthdays. "Your biography", they answered.
As a playwright, Smith responded with what came naturally. His play, My Life…In Smithereens, was mounted in a showcase production in Boston in May, 2000 and its two-week run created a small sensation.
In response, Blue Pumpkin Productions has begun producing a series of spoken-word CDs (and cassettes) tracing the incredible events of the 20th century through the prism of this one man and his family.
Time moves back and forth from the present, to Czarist oppression, to the Holocaust, and to the 1950s in a crazy quilt of memories and world-shaking events. Smith's opening track alone, on Volume 1, "Roots", will linger in your memory for years to come. Here's a 'small project' that's already begun its own journey to many homes, many families.