Fall 2006

Sept. 11
"Esperando al Puerto: Waiting at the Door of Kinship, Gender, and Performance" *
by Elizabeth Bell, Visiting Guest Artist-in-Residence
In workshops and a public lecture, Elizabeth Bell explores kinship's intersection with gender theory and feminism, sexuality, and performance theory and praxis.

Sept. 28-30(Double Bill)
"Mother Load"
by Janet Donoghue
This performance measures the heavy issues of motherhood and folds them into a bowl of comedic flare, mixing conceptual, ideological, and pop-culture flavors of mothering, with sprinkles of the hip mama, hot mama, domestic diva and happy housewife realities.
With a pinch of child-care, a dash of cleaning up, and equal parts eco-feminism, deep ecology and bedtime stories, this show congeals our deeply personal understandings of mothering with our global well-being, as we re-taste what it means to “have it all.”

"Queer Feminist: The Almost Musical"
Written and Performed by A. Lynn Zimmerman
Directed by Diana Tigerlily
Come musically meditate with a Feminist Evangelist, a SuperQueer Shaman, a Swami Shaker, a Folk Weaver, and a Holy Homo Queer Dyke Reverend, as they question the reign of patriarchal, colonialistic, hegemonic, classist, racist, sexist, heterosexist, and fascist demagogues.

Nov. 2-4
"The Penelopiad"
by Margaret Atwood
Adapted and directed by Elyse Lamm Pineau
Penelope and her ‘twelve hanged maids’ tell their side of the story in this witty feminist Odyssey that revisions history and burlesques the theatrical chorus/line.

Nov. 30 -Dec.2 (Double Bill)
"The Pornographic I"
by David Hanley Tejeda
What relationships do people experience between viewing any body and pornography? Can any representation of a body ever avoid the possibility that some might view it as pornography? This show uses media, performance poetry, and personal narrative to explore the melding categories of porn, art and scholarship (amateur and professional) that govern how we view the bodies of our selves and others in and out of relationships. MATURE THEMES.

"Trail Mix: A Sojourn on the Muddy Divide Between Nature and Culture"
by Jonny Gray
Utilizing a tasty mix of autobiography, performative writing, and persona monologues, this solo performance investigates the “muddy” boundary between nature and culture. This liminal space offers a playful yet serious place to interrogate multiple possibilities in the ways we use, consume, think about, construct, and operate within both nature and culture.

Dec. 5
201 performance evening

Dec. 7
Spotlight performances

Spring 2007

Jan. TBA
"If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again: An Ethnography of African-American Motherhood" *
Yvettte Hornsby Minor, Visiting Guest Artist-in-Residence
Evette Hornsby-Minor’s work is grounded in a Black feminist theoretical framework, utilizing the methods of narrative ethnography, the storytelling tradition of Africans, and performance ethnography that embodies the lived experiences of Black women. How can Black women speak to the world about their cultural truths in a language, the theoretical frameworks, and the methods of the dominant group?

Feb. 3
"Evening of Faculty Performances"

Feb. 8-10 (Double Bill)
"Hold My Tongue: The Sisterly Enfleshment of My Black Femininity"
Written and directed by Antoinette L. McDonald
In a Post-Modern journey into McDonald’s Afrocentric feminist identity, a collection of narratives interweaves movement, music, and storytelling to explore her intensely personalized experience as marginalized other.

"Good Eats!"
Written and directed by Chris Collins
Inspired by Amiri Braka’s revolutionary theatre techniques, Good Eats negotiates the passage between food, prison, and the death penalty. Audience members will be served performance art with side dishes consisting of poetry, prose, and other documents in an attempt to swallow the inequalities (re)produced by the prison industrial complex and the capital punishment system.

March 22-24
"Doctor Weathervaine’s adjective adjective Olde Timey Medicine Show (and Revue)"
Written and Directed by Travis Brisini & Charles Parrott
Doctor Weathervaine brings his cavalcade of medicine show superstars to the Marion Kleinau Theatre! In a magical display of countrified wonder, the medicine show gang has the comedy, music, and mentality to cure the ailments that lurk around every terrifying turn of your rancorous post-modern life! Come with your minds (and pocketbooks) open wide!

April 26-28
"Cataclysm!: A Post-Medium Revision of Witkiewicz's The Water Hen"
Written and directed by Jake Simmons
A revisionary staging of S.I. Witkiewicz’s play "The Water Hen" developed with an installment of digital media including original music and video installation. Witkiewicz’s play follows the story of Edgar through a metaphysical reality where he meets The Water Hen, an indeterminate character who challenges Edgar's understanding of the limits of his world.

May 1
Spotlight performances AND annual Kleinau awards

May 3
201 performance evening

(*)Free Admission