Five women sit, stand, walk, and speak—interrogating the relevance of abstraction via seemingly unpresentable content including the holocaust, sexual trauma, and fetishization of young girls. They are simultaneously creating a rape colony in the woods with tiny gnome men made in petri dishes, listening to Joan Baez, watching John Waters’ film Cry Baby, and performing an anti-rape chant from a highway upstate.
As various pop cultural references, genres, and bodily traumas compress into each other the work’s biting humor offers catharsis, simultaneously taking down and making a case for abstraction.
Part of the American Realness Festival 2019
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
This piece contains nudity and explicit content not suitable for children.
Performance Schedule:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 6 PM
Director
Juliana F. May
Choreography
Juliana F. May