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Bad Light & A Good Woman: LIVE DOUBLE FEATURE at the Fringe

April 13 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

$20

2 distinct theatrical works about womanhood both now and in our past. These short pieces by 2 different companies present side by side.

Bad Light

Presented by Rachel Austin

“I’m not living my own life,” the hostess sings condescendingly. Bad Light is a colorful series of absurdist musical comedy sketches (but are they – really?) of attempts at perfectionism, expansionism, oblivion, and religion in relation to various dominant cultural values. All through caricatures of white ladies. THERE WILL BE CAKE AND CONDESCENSION. #awkwardcaricaturesofwhiteladies

A Good Woman

Presented by Nerissa Tunnessen & Samantha Xiao Cody

A good wife. A good woman. A good mother. Penelope weaves and waits and weaves and waits for odysseus to return.

Who controls my body? Is this taking my power back? How am I feeling pleasure while bound, like this, in string?

The work is a meditation on the Odyssey’s Penelope and her daily ritual of weaving and unweaving a funeral shroud to avoid a fate of being forced into a marriage with one of 106 suitors who desire her body and title. Through a conversation between two queer and gender-diverse artists, a violinist and a dancer bound together by string, the work considers what it means to be a “good woman.”

18+

90min

Physical Theatre & Dance

Organizer

Richmond Fringe Festival
Phone
540-385-2127
Email
info@rachelaustinvoice.com
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Venue

The BASEMENT
300 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219 United States
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Phone
info@thebasementrva.org
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