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The Artists' Lounge
Jeremiah Reynolds
Respectable Rebels
February 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Appropriate for all ages
The Artists' Lounge
Jeremiah Reynolds
Respectable Rebels
February 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Appropriate for all ages
The Artists’ Lounge
Respectable Rebels
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
7PM (Doors 6:30PM)
“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful”
-Mary Shelley, 1831
We now hear phrases like “We’re never going back!” or “Nevertheless, she persisted” with regularity, describing outspoken women in today’s society. Jeremiah Reynolds (Since I Suppose – OZ Arts 2016) calls our attention to courageous and influential women of the past, and asks us to consider those who have made an impact on our own lives.
Performing excerpts from two, 2017 world premiere plays both centered on women, Monstrous Bodies and Damned Rebel Bitches, Reynolds lures us in, and then asks us to consider whether we would have been as bold.
FREE admission (donations welcome).
Come prepared to share (or not) stories from your own life.
MONSTROUS BODIES
“on the northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…. the airy flights of my imagination, were born”
Mary Shelley, Author’s Introduction to Frankenstein” 1831
It’s 1812 and the country is coming apart at the seams. War, poverty, and riots make it a dangerous place for a young girl but after a furious row with her stepmother she is sent away from home, alone, into the care of the rich and radical Baxter family of Dundee. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is 14 and hasn’t met the man who will make her Mary Shelley yet. She hasn’t done anything yet. But her genius for finding trouble pitches her into a world of politicians, revolutionaries, lunatics, American fugitives, and the ladies of The Glassite Church Floral Tea Committee.
DAMNED REBEL BITCHES
Named after a quote attributed to the Duke of Cumberland during the Jacobite uprising. The ‘damned rebel bitches’ were women who accompanied their men folk to the battlefield; bringing their children with them to just behind the front line so that the men would never retreat. Because of their influence, the army was wildly successful.
The play marries approaches to illness and end of life decisions with a vibrant adventure story across New York in the teeth of Hurricane Sandy. From the Clydeside Blitz in 1941 to the liberation of Odessa in 1944 and the immigration queues of Ellis Island in 1950 the story of Ella and Agnes’ past lives are told whilst they fiercely inhabit their future. As lights and power go out across New York in 2012 Ella hunts down her missing grandchild and the man who married and battered her sister decades before.
Poorboy theatre company hail from Scotland and Reynolds will perform excerpts from two of their 2017 world premiere plays centered on women…’
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