THE PRECIPICE
The Precipice is a dark fairytale of forbidden sisterhood that asks the question"What will you do when they come for your wildness?"
Born out of Miranda’s bi-racial upbringing in the expansive countryside of Vermont, The Precipice tells the story of Iris and Polly, two daughters of the Goddess of Dreams, Lady Midnight. Sent to Earth to inspire a broken society, Polly embodies the dark side of the moon and Iris is the light. Once on earth they are separated and come of age under vastly different circumstances. When they reunite as teenagers, they must navigate a narrow path to preserve their identities and sisterhood in a society determined to keep them stifled and apart. The Precipice asks, “What will you do when they come for your wildness?”
"You Just Sat There" performed by Micaela Diamond and Morgan Dudley
CREATIVE TEAM
Miranda
Ferriss Jones
Creator, Composer, Lyricist, Librettist
Bob Weir
Angel Producer - The Late, Great Bob Weir (Founding member of The Grateful Dead)
Jeff Chimenti
Arranger
Anna Morton Stacey
Dramaturg
Laura Benanti
Creative Producer
Farah Tanis
Non-Profit Partner
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size
6
Cast
Size
8 - 16
Duration
2 Hours
THEATRE
TYPE
St Anns,
Oregon Shakespeare Theater
Time period
Once Upon
A Time...
comps
A Brother's Grimm Wicked with music by Kate Bush & Nina Simone if directed
by Emma Rice
LATEST
Behind the scenes and performance highlights from the April 2024 Salon performance hosted by Black Women's Blueprint, featuring Laura Benanti, Nasia Thomas, Morgan Dudley, Eleri Ward and Lorrie Doriza
Over the past year, The Precipice has entered an exciting phase of development following its Williamstown Residency. Since spring 2024, The Precipice has held two salon performances with an incredible cast, presenting and experimenting with new songs for small audiences as part of a grassroots fundraising campaign.
These salons were in partnership with Black feminist organization, Black Women’s Blueprint, who piloted an artist in residence program for Miranda and The Precipice. On the fall equinox, the salon cast performed at the BWB annual gala, held under the stars on the land of the haudenosaunee. We are deeply grateful for Black Women’s Blueprint's support and look forward to sharing more about new exciting partnerships and development opportunities on the horizon for The Precipice.
The Precipice will be presented on November 12th, 2026 as the second—and largest-scale—work in Miranda’s Lincoln Center Presents partnership. For the first time, audiences will be able to experience the full arc of the show from beginning to end, integrating both legacy material and newly composed work in a fully rewritten fairytale that reflects the evolution of the story since the 2022 Williamstown workshop.
