Renowned poet John Berryman won a Pulitzer prize for his greatest achievement, The Dream Songs, even as he careened between artistic triumph and the chasm of depression and drink, leading to a haunting reckoning on a Minneapolis bridge in the dead of winter.
Through songs, visual art, and emotional performance, STRANGE HEART compassionately evokes the life of a gifted artist struggling with his complicated past. Sharing John's journey are his wife Kate and a puppet named Henry who acts as Berryman’s tormentor, drinking buddy, and artistic alter-ego.
Beloved Twin Cities vocalists Bradley Greenwald and Anna Hashizume front a live band playing a dreamy jazz-infused score in playwright-composer Greg Brosofske’s lyrical portrait of John Berryman.