 | Adult Orgasm | | Dario Fo and Franka Rame | | 21 August to 31 August, 2008 | | | Giant Olive presents a reflection of women’s antagonistic relationship with men and the exploration of the female entity. Enjoy a journey of women’s evolutionary role in society. Through time ideas about women and their rights and personal value have changed. The show explores the status of women within society. This status has changed from generation to generation and from life to life. Daughters break their mothers’ taboos, but always create new taboos for their own offspring. In this collection of monologues we make a full circle, equaling the female symbol of fertility. We start off watching a trapped woman; trapped by husband and society. She is forced to believe this is normal and to accept her fate. Then we move on to a women trying to fulfill classical duties of woman and man; being mother, wife and worker at the same time. In the third piece, we start reflecting on this situation by criticizing the way women are being treated on the level of both the conscious and the subconscious. This is followed by the myth of Medea, a woman who was pushed too far. Throughout the piece the overall theme is transformation. Of women in society but also within themselves. We make up a full circle, as death gives way for new life. A never ending cycle. | CAST & CREW (top) | Woman Alone | - | Sarah Blading | | Waking Up | - | Lowri Sallis-Lewis | | Same Story | - | Rebecca Wall Madeleine French | | Medea Prologue | - | Kate Bancroft | | Medea | - | Imogen Harris | | | | Director | - | Andrea Hooymans | | Assistant Director | - | Deborah de Flammineis | | Producer | - | George Sallis | | Click on the thumbnails to view full size in a new window. | Click on the thumbnails to view full size in a new window.
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