One year after its debut in February 2004, Genevieve Aichele's original one-woman performance, Resurrection, will return to West End Studio Theatre, back by popular demand. The performance combines monologues, songs and poetry to tell the story of one artist's life.

Local theatre artist Genevieve Aichele is known in the Portsmouth community as an educator, director, and performer. For thirty years as a professional artist, Genevieve has been performing hundreds of scripts and stories – other people's stories. She is now telling her own. Resurrection is a compelling theatrical experience that weaves together mythical and spiritual themes of death and rebirth, incorporating Shakespeare, music poetry and masterful storytelling. Resurrection draws the audience into Genevieve's personal struggle with depression and grief, and the incredible quest she has made in search of enlightenment. It is at times shocking, belly-achingly funny, heart wrenching and inspiring; a story about human existence, transformation and redemption.

Along with Resurrection , Genevieve will be premiering a new piece entitled Gently Gone , about discovering the artist who was her father. After suffering a stroke when Genevieve was young, her father was a man seemingly without spirit. Using rediscovered recordings from the 1940's, as well as writing from her brothers and sisters, Genevieve uncovers the storyteller, musician, and creative soul inside her father, along with his own struggles with depression and mental illness. In this search through the layers of life to find the man, the father, and the artist she never knew, comes the realization that he had passed on to her these creative gifts - gifts she hadn't truly valued until their source was discovered.

Part storytelling, part multimedia, Resurrection is a powerful journey through the beauty and pain of the creative soul. With set design by Wendy Connolly, music by Jeff Fritz, and lighting design by Quentin Stockwell.

NHTP's founder and Artistic Director since 1988, Genevieve Aichele has received numerous awards for her work in educational theatre. In 2001 Genevieve received the prestigious New Hampshire Governors Award for Excellence in Arts in Education and the Portsmouth Spotlight Award for her work in Community Arts. In 2002, she received an award for Outstanding Achievement in American Theatre from the New England Theatre Conference. Her 2002 Youth Repertory Company production of Macbeth received the NH Best Children's Theatre Award for that year and she also received the Spotlight Best Director Award for her productin of Caste and John Wopps at The Music Hall in October 2003.