SoLow Festival: A six-pack of picks
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Sassy burlesque, theater in a car and more.
GOING IT ALONE: Cast members of a troupe called Bright Invention: The White Pines Ensemble will present nine separate and unique solo shows during SoLow Festival this year.
Sarah R. Bloom
Sarah R. Bloom
Man, I Feel Like a Woman, June 24-26
- Meghann Williams earned notoriety with Chlamydia dell’Arte, the sassy burlesque sex-ed lesson created with Gigi Naglak. This new comedy, she explains, is about “woman’s work and femininity, the roles we play and the pressure and pleasure we feel in those roles.”
Coffee Is Thicker Than Blood, June 20, 21, 27
- Randi Alexis Hickey is one of many SoLow performers in Bright Invention, the White Pines Productions’ improv troupe. She explores how “the whole concept of family being the people who you share DNA with or whose house you grew up in feels limiting — and maybe sometimes not so helpful.”
The Idaho Shuffle, June 18-21
- Jeremy Gable shares the distinctive sound of metal on maple in this tap dance show that looks at “what you do when you live in a place that you don’t understand.”
Jesus, Do You Like Me? Please Mark Yes or No, June 24
- Performance artist Eileen Tull joined SoLow with this “satellite performance,” in Chicago, of her semi-autobiographical comedy about the Second Coming. So why mention it? It sounds great — “Answers to all existential crises guaranteed!” — and it’s cool that SoLow extends so far outside Philadelphia.
Bicycle Face, June 19-21
- Hannah Van Sciver’s “interdisciplinary feminist joyride,” framed by a 2125 Feminist Theory class, connects three different women separated by a century each. The title was coined in 1895 by doctors concerned that cycling was unhealthy for women. “It’s gonna get weird,” she promises.
Road May Flood, June 22-24
- Nell Bang-Jensen’s “part theater piece, part podcast, part confessional” about facing fears happens in a car, with an audience capacity of three, which even for SoLow is really intimate.
More information at SoLowFest.com.
See Also: Is SoLow the new Fringe?
