Susan Edsall’s BUEN CAMINO At Briggs Opera House

White River Junction, VT – Briggs Opera House Inc and Shaker Bridge Theatre announce
a one-night performance of Susan Edsall’s original work Buen Camino: My Walk
Through 540 Miles of Rain, Resentment, and Redemption at the Briggs Opera
House on Wednesday, July 23, at 7PM. Touring from Hawaii, writer and performer
Susan Edsall brings Buen Camino, directed and developed by Jessica Lynn
Johnson, to the Upper Valley. Susan premiered Buen Camino at the SOLO STARS
Series in Los Angeles in December 2024, winning their Encore Award. The show has also
played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, and in New York City at the United
Solo Festival.

Susan has a perfect life, a perfect love, and perfect happiness. When she suddenly
undergoes an unexpected loss, her perfect life ends. Consumed by excruciating pain, she
finds it impossible to imagine any future worth living. Until, on an ordinary trip to the
grocery store, she hears The Voice. The trouble is, Susan doesn’t believe in Voices. And
yet, when The Voice tells her to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain, she obeys despite
knowing nothing about this ancient pilgrimage. At rock bottom, Susan has nothing left to
lose except the stories that bind her to the past. With the help of some improbable Spiritual
Guides and the Camino itself, Susan must face her past to have any hope of creating her
future. Alone on stage, she becomes 23 characters to take the audience on her solitary
walk through 540 miles of rain, resentment, and redemption. Buen Camino is a moving
story of how grief can lead to surrender and ultimately to freedom.

Susan Edsall (playwright and performer) is a vital part of what has resulted in White River
Junction becoming “the theater district”. In 1988 the White River Theater Festival was
founded and housed by River City Arts. Our fledgling arts organization WRTF brought
professional theater to the Upper Valley (and encouraged by the HOP who shared their
volunteers). Susan was living here as a traveling consultant and acting for the Parish
Players. When she saw what WRTF was doing she jumped in with both feet. She and the
founders (both named “Steve”) took WRTF to almost a $1M annual budget. When River
City Arts had to close, a WRTF “alum”, our own Matt Dunne, stepped in and in the course
of a time of uncertainty, found Brooke Wetzel and her nascent company Northern Stage.
The rest as they say is history. Now we have Northern Stage, Shaker Bridge Theatre,
and over 60 recurring arts initiatives coming to WRJ for performing arts as both audience

5 S Main Street, White River Junc3on, VT 05001 | 802-281-6848 | shakerbridgetheatre.org
members and performers. Come merge with the indomitable Susan Edsall as her odyssey
brings her back to us once again. https://www.susanedsall.com/
Date: Wednesday July 23
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Briggs Opera House, 5 South Main Street, White River Junction, VT
05001
$30 Tickets are available through the Shaker Bridge Theatre website at
www.shakerbridgetheatre.org or by calling 802-281-6848 or emailing
tickets.boh@gmail.com.
A Production of Briggs Opera House, Inc. in association with Shaker Bridge Theatre
Net proceeds to benefit WISE