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