Zoom performance of Carolyn Gage’s play on Saturday, May 16th, at 7:30pm.
Visit my VIDEO page, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7rdWChzJY, to watch the performance in its entirety!
Read reviews for the show at Gay City News, GoMag, and Bi-Coastal Babble!
Award-winning lesbian-feminist playwright and activist Carolyn Gage teams up with counterclaim (c-c), a Brooklyn-based production company, to host an online reading of her latest work: Female Nude Seated, a one-act play about Irish painters Mainie Jellet and Evie Hone. c-c will host a talkback after the reading during which the audience may submit questions for Carolyn Gage and all other collaborators.
In the wake of World War I, Mainie and Evie meet in art school when Evie interrupts Mainie's attempt to drink a jar of paint thinner. Over a bottle of brandy, the two get to know one another as artists and as women who are struggling to make art in a field dominated by men. A story of female sexuality, trauma, and the demands of artistic ideals, Female Nude Seated shows two young women at a personal crossroads in a time of extraordinary change.
Featuring Morgaine Gooding-Silverwood and Olivia Rose Barresi. Directed by Emma Rosa Went. Assistant director Harrison Densmore, and assistant producer/dramaturg Abbey Joan Burgess.
