The Golden Drum Year is a multi-disciplinary performance piece (text, video, music and dance) that provokes close examination of daily life in a large, chaotic urban city through the multivalent perspectives of its inhabitants who cross culture, class, age, citizenship status, jobs etc. Told through a unique blend of poetry, dialogue, and monologues, the story follows Eugene, a young man new to The City, as he navigates his first year living in New York and the people he encounters as he works at a supermarket.

In a larger sense, the show highlights how the accumulation of simple daily choices and routines shape a day, week, year – peoples lives and the life of their city. This play asks the question: what is the value of one year in a life? Our proposal is that the meaning is in the details - in the simple yet complex truth that the value of life is inherent in everyday living.