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turnabout:

​First off, what is it like being naked on stage?

I think everybody in the ensemble would agree that baby wipes are essential. This isn’t my first time being naked on stage, but being naked in Untitled Feminist Show feels different. I have no props or words to draw attention away from the loadedness of my junk while I’m trying to be myself, which is a pretty masculine. So it’s really the most naked I could possibly be. I never have identified as female, but I’m sure I read that way to an audience on a bare white floor and five other vaginas (or what-have-you) dancing with me.

It’s hard knowing people won’t necessarily decide that I am a masculine person right away. It magnifies something a little more subtle that happens to me daily. It’s really challenging, sometimes crushing. I worked through a lot of my own gender issues in the process of developing the piece.

very cool interview with Becca Blackwell, of Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show which is awesome and you should go see at the Baryshnikov Arts Center before it closes on February 4.

Seconded!

turnabout:

nerd-gasms replied to your photo: Getting ready for cemetery theatre (green-wood…

Jealous! Please post a review.

It was interesting. The cemetery is gorgeous and a brilliant setting for the piece. The actors sang and danced some, in addition to performing as multiple characters in the town. I forgot what a strange piece the Spoon River Anthology was, but it was suitably creepy. There’s not really a plot, it’s more of a snapshot of a certain era in a town.

Also there’s a bread factory next door so the entrance smells like bread. My friend would like to be buried there. Or possibly at the bread factory.

AT the bread factory, even better!