Dream Stack Productions presents a us premiere: My Suitcase of Fragments

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A powerful evening of storytelling and music - an exquisite portrait of exile. A fragile tapestry of longing, resilience, and love for Ukraine, a homeland left behind. Presented in partnership with the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard (HURI) and Harvard Square Business Association

CAMBRIDGE, MA — April 6, 2026 — Dream Stack Productions, a new Boston-based producing company, presents its inaugural event, My Suitcase of Fragments, an interdisciplinary salon-style performance, written and performed by celebrated Ukrainian author Marta Gusovska, with original score written and performed live by award-winning Argentinian pianist Uriel Pascucci, on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 7pm, in Cambridge.

Blending personal narrative, music, and reflection, celebrated writer and publisher Guskovska’s My Suitcase of Fragments was originally published in 2025 as an essay in the Los Angeles Book Review, and was then developed into a performance piece in collaboration with the celebrated Argentinian pianist Pascucci, premiering in Basel, Switzerland, which he then recorded and released in 2025. (Amazon, Apple Music/iTunes, Spotify, Pandora)

Pascucci has recorded both classical music and his own compositions which include other musical influences such as jazz and world music. The recipient of two awards from The Clouzine International Music Awards for Spring 2026: Best Flamenco Song for “Virutas” and Best Instrumental Jazz Song for “Marta’s Dream, Pascucci will perform My Suitcase of Fragments live on April 23 as Gosovska reads from her essay, exploring themes of displacement, migration, and the emotional experience of rebuilding identity far from home during war time. Artwork from famed Ukrainian artists Khrystyna Valko and Nadia Kushnir, one of the most prominent artists in Ukraine, are projected throughout the performance. Drawing from lived experience, Gusovska and Pascucci craft an intimate and poetic performance speaking to both the specificity of the Ukrainian diaspora and the universal search for home, identity, and belonging.

In her review in Mainly Piano, Kathy Parsons describes the piece: “In her haste, she forgot that she had previously packed a suitcase that was undoubtedly full of more practical items, but when the time came to leave, she packed another suitcase with things that were overlooked the first time. Marta wrote the essay from the room she rented “somewhere near the border of France and Switzerland” as she examined the items she packed - her “Suitcase of Fragments” - and the memories they evoked. Eight of the nine tracks are under two minutes and are impressionistic vignettes that express deep emotion and cherished memories.”

Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard (HURI), where Guskovska is currently a Fulbright Scholar, and in partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association, the event also marks the launch of Dream Stack Production, founded and led by creative producer Sara Stackhouse (known for past innovative projects with -Arlekin!, Yo-Yo Ma, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Concert Theatre Works), a company focused on innovative, artist-driven work at the intersection of cultures, perspectives and disciplines.

Following the performance, a post-show discussion with the artists and HURI researcher Dr Emma Mateo will be led by Boston favorite and acclaimed actor Bobbie Steinbach, who joins Stackhouse as a co-producer on the project. Steinbach brings a personal connection to the material, with family roots in Ukraine.

My Suitcase of Fragments is a performance project by Marta Gosovska, a Ukrainian writer,translator, publisher, PEN member, and refugee. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar atHarvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. She is Editor-in-Chief for Translated Literature atLaboratoria Publishing House and an award-winning translator whose work bridges Ukrainian andglobal readers. Her translations have earned the Best Non-Fiction Translation at BookForum (2018)for Kate Fox’s Watching the English, the Best Children’s Book Translation (2020) for Judy Blume’sAre You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, the PEN Translation Award (2022) for Lois Lowry’s Numberthe Stars, the Andrei Sheptytskyi Award (2021), and the Looren Award (2025) for Judith Kerr’s WhenHitler Stole the Pink Rabbit. An alumna of HURI’s Summer School at Harvard (2024) and the FILIExchange Program (2025), she curates landmark classics, champions emerging voices, and fosterscross-cultural literary exchange. Passionate about expanding Ukraine’s literary canon, Martabelieves every translation opens a new window on the world. One winter night four years ago, sheleft her home with a single suitcase and wandered across Europe, through Hungary, Austria,France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, carrying her memories as her only constant.

Uriel Pascucci is a classical pianist and composer from Argentina, the end of the world. For MySuitcase of Fragments, he composed, performed, and recorded the piano album thataccompanies the essay, translating displacement, memory, and tenderness into sound.Blending heritage with a contemporary sensibility, his music moves through quiet emotionallandscapes. His work has received international recognition, including the First Prize at the XVIIIPiano Competition “City of Necochea” in Argentina honors from the Global Music Awards (2024)and The Clouzine International Music Awards (2026).

Bobbie Steinbach is a longtime actor, director and acting coach based in Boston. She has performedin countless plays and musicals with many local and regional theatre companies, including The LyricStage, New Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare,Boston Symphony, Greeted Boston Stage Company, Michigan Operat Theatre, Cherry CountyPlayhouse and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. She is a founding member of Actors’ ShakespeareProject, and as a Resident Artist with ASP, she has trod the boards in 22 of the Bard’s plays. In2016 The Theatre Communications Guild awarded Bobbie a prestigious Fox Fellowship forDistinguished Achievement, and she was honored to receive the 2023 Elliot Norton Prize forSustained Excellence and a 2001 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress.

Founded and led by creative producer Sara Stackhouse, Dream Stack Productions is aMassachusetts-based non-profit that develops and produces theatrical works and creativeprojects at the crossroads of culture, worldview, and discipline. Centering disenfranchised anddisplaced communities - especially women - Dream Stack works locally, nationally, andinternationally to dismantle barriers and create powerful, meaningful, healing and inspiringartistic work across divides. Dream Stack is currently co-producing Visual Echo’s Notice toAppear, a documentary theater piece by Irina Kruzhilina that exposes the dysfunctionaldynamics of the U.S. immigration courts and the forces determining the fate of asylum seekers,coming to New York in 2026-2027; and Trojan Women Project, a multi-year initiative combiningtheatrical production with community engagement around issues of human trafficking, inpartnership with Jadow Productions. www.thedreamstack.org

April 23, 2026 at 7PM ET
First Parish Church, The Barn Room, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA

More information and tickets: https://thedreamstack.org/suitcase