A bridge is a means to travel,
connecting two places.
It spans sky and water,
but is rooted in
steel, concrete, earth.
It contradicts and unifies.
In this spirit,
Bridge Productions is founded.
We seek solid ground from which to launch new, original stage works.
Join us to think, be moved, and share a unique experience.

Cross Over!

Sincerely,

Michelle Storm
Playwright & Producer

It is not a conduit (confluence?) but a place.
The place, of movement & an order.
        The place of  old order. 
        But the tail end of the movement is new. 
        Driving us to say what we are thinking.
        It is so much  like a beach after all, where you stand 
 and think of going no further.
        And it is good when you get to no further.
        It is like a  reason that picks you up and places you where
 you always wanted to be.
        This far, it is  fair to be crossing, to have crossed.
        Then there is  no promise in the other.
        Here it is.
        Steel and air, a mottled presence,
        small panacea and lucky for us.
And then it got very cool.

                                -John Ashbery

Untitled Bridge Poem (1988)
Hotel Lautreamont
Copyright by John Ashbery.
All rights reserved.
Used by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author.
This poem appears on the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge,
Minneapolis, MN.