Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
"Revolt is an implosive new play about the conundrums of being female in the 21st century. Alice Birch has created a series of unsettling vignettes that ask how to revolutionize language, relationships, work, and life in general.
This wildly experimental and inventive new play will not be well behaved, because the revolution will not be performed for us as we sit passively by."
-Available Light Theatre
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Written by Alice Birch
Director: Eleni Papaleonardos
Choreography and Dramaturgy: Michael J. Morris
Stage Manager and Costumer: Edna Mae Berkey
Assistant Stage Manager: Marc Weaver
Sound Design: Keya Myers-Alkire
Lighting Design: Stephanie Thompson
Performers: Brian Gray, Adam Humphrey, Beth Josephsen, Shanelle Marie, Kasey Meininger, Gabe Simms, and Dakota Thorn
Available Light Theatre, MadLab
Columbus, OH
January 11-27, 2018
"Feminists like Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Judith Butler, among many others, have taught us that feminism must address more than only women, indeed, more than only gender as we know it. Feminism must question and challenge all mutually constituting systems of oppression, domination, and exploitation, including the mechanisms through which such systems are reproduced and internalized. When coming to Revolt, we knew that we had a responsibility to handle the complexity of this text with curiosity and care. In particular, I was invested in asking both how language functions as a regulatory apparatus through which normative gender roles are reproduced and how the presumptive univocal signification of language might be complicated, disrupted, fractured, or broken to produce more possibilities. I was also concerned with exploring how bodies exceed the limits of language and the authority of the text. What meanings would become available to us if we positioned our bodies as unruly partners to Birch’s script, working within and at the edges of what we were given? We invite you to be with us as we pursue perspectives that refuse to behave, pushing at the limits of what we understand about gender, what it has or might mean to be a woman, and how to stage a revolution within a culture that continues to be structured by patriarchy in so many forms."
-Michael J. Morris, dramaturg/choreographer
This wildly experimental and inventive new play will not be well behaved, because the revolution will not be performed for us as we sit passively by."
-Available Light Theatre
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Written by Alice Birch
Director: Eleni Papaleonardos
Choreography and Dramaturgy: Michael J. Morris
Stage Manager and Costumer: Edna Mae Berkey
Assistant Stage Manager: Marc Weaver
Sound Design: Keya Myers-Alkire
Lighting Design: Stephanie Thompson
Performers: Brian Gray, Adam Humphrey, Beth Josephsen, Shanelle Marie, Kasey Meininger, Gabe Simms, and Dakota Thorn
Available Light Theatre, MadLab
Columbus, OH
January 11-27, 2018
"Feminists like Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Judith Butler, among many others, have taught us that feminism must address more than only women, indeed, more than only gender as we know it. Feminism must question and challenge all mutually constituting systems of oppression, domination, and exploitation, including the mechanisms through which such systems are reproduced and internalized. When coming to Revolt, we knew that we had a responsibility to handle the complexity of this text with curiosity and care. In particular, I was invested in asking both how language functions as a regulatory apparatus through which normative gender roles are reproduced and how the presumptive univocal signification of language might be complicated, disrupted, fractured, or broken to produce more possibilities. I was also concerned with exploring how bodies exceed the limits of language and the authority of the text. What meanings would become available to us if we positioned our bodies as unruly partners to Birch’s script, working within and at the edges of what we were given? We invite you to be with us as we pursue perspectives that refuse to behave, pushing at the limits of what we understand about gender, what it has or might mean to be a woman, and how to stage a revolution within a culture that continues to be structured by patriarchy in so many forms."
-Michael J. Morris, dramaturg/choreographer