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LULU v.2 // because bad things happen to bad girls
feb 15 & 22 @ 8pm PWYC
as part of the 2015 rhubarb festival
adapted by ted witzel & the ensemble and featuring texts by: salvatore antonio, margaret atwood, rose cullis, susanna fournier, sky gilbert, hesiod sort of, evalyn parry, russell smith, aurora stewart de pea, & whoever that john guy was who wrote the book of revelation.
featuring: mayko nguyen, lyon smith, and nicole st. martin
director: ted witzel
designer: helen yung
assistant director: daniela pagliarello
sound: lyon smith and wes mckenzie
production manager: christopher ross
producer: kerry freek
episode 2: in which our heroine meets a pornographically gratuitous end.
from the beginning of the play, its clear: LULU MUST DIEbut why? why three pages of stage directions and screaming? why can only jack the ripper kill her?
because she’s a fallen woman? because that’s what happens when you go barefoot alone at night? because pandora’s box needs not just to be closed, but extracted?
why does it have to be so bloody awful? and what the fuck is the countess geschwitz doing caught up in this messis it just because two women screaming are scarier than one?
the final scene of pandoras box: a monster-tragedy is as thrilling as it is traumatizing. in this second instalment of our ongoing series of LULU experiments at buddies in bad times, the red light district questions the climax of wedekinds play through the lens of myth, literary convention, and tragic statistics.
if it’s not clear already, trigger warning. for everything. it’s all a trigger. well, there’s no snakes. so trigger warning: everything but snakes. and spiders. there aren’t any of those either.
buddies in bad times presents:
the 36th rhubarb festival
transgressions in performance
february 11-22, 2015
festival director: mel hague
associate festival director: cole alvis
festival sponsor: TD bank group
media sponsor: NOW magazine
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