Bring Obligatory Scene to IDGTF
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Calling all internet art connoisseurs, theatre lovers, fellow queer-dos & allies;
I am beyond thrilled to announce that Carli Rhoades, Alice Kabia, Margret Gleberman and myself have been accepted into the 16th annual International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival !!!
We will return, this May, armed with another of Carolyn Gage’s short plays : a two hander titled The Obligatory Scene. Our slot in the 16th annual festival will be directed, acted, managed and produced and made completely possible by queer artists in their twenties.
Look Who’s Back:
This season three powerhouse queer thespians and activists are joining joining this transAtlantic journey. We will be armed with an intimate play revolving around the topics of intimate consent and the healing of sexual assault survivors.
From playwright Carolyn Gage via her Butch Visability Project ; we are continuing the fight for visibility as instrumental to affirming identities, providing role models, and preserving excluded perspectives that would otherwise be tossed aside. For the second time we have consciously the perspective of a queer butch female as the focus of our stage. We are openly talking about the aftermath of sexual assault and the long road of healing for survivors.
Yes, we pass the Bechdel test. Yes, we ensure our audience are hearing queer perspectives. Yes, we ensure our audience are hearing female perspectives.Yes, we believe survivors. Yes, you need to see this play.
This play is honest, it comes directly from its source, and allows us to represent ourselves. This piece makes space for conflicting definitions of sexual feminism and charts a new course for supporting victims of sexual abuse.
The contemporary public is finally ready for this discourse about sexual assault and the healing of it’s victims. It is our assertion that the Trump Presidency, #metoo movement, and the bravery of women such as: Anita Hill, Dr. Christine Ford, Stormy Daniels, and Jill Herth have brought the conversation of consent and healing from sexual assault into the public sphere unlike ever before. Obligatory Scene presents a debate of whether it’s possible for survivors of sexual assault to want to have a sexual relationship to their partner. We have a very important and controversial point to bring to the table.
This play presents the audience with an honest, dynamic, brave question: how do we aid in the healing of sexual assault? This show is about the journey from not having any of the answers to creating them.
We need your help:
We are actively fighting the stigma of shame around asking for money to support artists. We need your help to make logistics of our production possible! Every penny of your contributions will fund plane tickets, rehearsal space, lodging for our cast & crew of 4 , and paying our collaborators for their beautiful work a breakdown of which you will find below:
Plane Tickets: $350 each (x4) = $1,400
Rehearsal Space: $600
Lodging in Dublin: $1,000
Stipends: $800
Insurance: $1,000
Baseline cost of taking the production to the festival: $4,800
The remaining will go towards costumes, props, set design, etc...
Any contributions are greatly appreciated, and whether you can or cannot donate, please share our production link with others and invite anyone who will be in Dublin during our run.
Your funding provides a band of highly capable young qualified artistic minds to use their talent, rather than resting on the haunches of their millennialism. Our political climate demands our work embody relevant aptitude and daring boldness to ensure it holds the population’s attention in the battle between numerous hugely deserving causes and a bleak decent into complacency.
Come See Us!
We will be in Dublin at the Teachers Club Studio playing 13th-18th of May (2019).
All evening performances will be held at 21:00, and our Saturday matinee will be at 16:00. (Sat 18th)
Get tickets HERE!
Or visit: https://gaytheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows
We will be keeping all our supporters updated with the play’s progress as we move forward, so keep an eye out!
Check Us Out:

Carli Rhoades:(Vivey) is a Queer Artist and Activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and her special interests include donuts, cats, puppets, and liberation for all.
(http://carlirhoades.com/)
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Alice Kabia: (Dru) is thrilled to join this ensemble. Having just left touring with the National Players, they are excited to travel again and this time across the pond. Regional credits: Olney Theatre Center: Twelfth Night (Hall), The Crucible (Danforth/Tituba), Around the Workd in 80 Days (Ensemble); Speakeasy Stage Company: Men on Boats (Hall) and New Rep Theatre: Baltimore (Alyssa). Other credits include Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Lead Player). EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University.
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Amelia Cain: The driving directional force behind this production, Mia is face meltingly passionate. An director, actor, model and puppeteer based in Brooklyn, Mia holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. This will be the second time contributing to the International Dublin Gay Theatre festival. A Puppetry instructor with Shadow Box Theater and a puppeteer for Puppetsburg. Recent credits include: a devised section of the Odyssey at Port Finge for Pop Up Odyssey, work as both a performer and divisor on Are You Alice an immersive piece with their company: Permafrost Theatre Collective, Chorus in Hamlet Isn’t Dead’s all female production of Henry the Fifth, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra at the Slipper Room, and Rebbeca in Ashes to Ashes with the Invisible Girls Theatre co. Directorial credits include WE ReMember by Amy Oestreicher, Easter Sunday by Carolyn Gage, The Zero Hour by Madeline George, Passing by Haley Jakobson, and an adaptation of Justin Butcher’s Scaramouche Jones. (http://ameliacain.com)
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Margaret Gleberman: Is a organizational force to be reckoned with. Freelance stage manager extraordinaire and a recovering architecture student, Margo is based in New York. She is keeping our heads on straight while coordinating all the shows‘ details internationally. She enjoys puzzles, the word hootenanny, and the Oxford comma. Recent work includes The End of Mermaids (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Then She Fell (Third Rail Projects), and Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company).
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Carolyn Gage:
Named ‘one of the best lesbian playwrights in america’ by the Lambda Book Report, she wrote this kick ass play as a part of her Butch Visibility project. The author of more than seventy-five plays, including musicals, one-acts, one-woman shows and dramas and also the author of twelve books. Her work is widely published and performed and she tours in her own shows, offering lectures and workshops on lesbian culture and history. Obligatory Scene can be purchased in hard copy at her website.
( http://carolyngage.weebly.com/)
she/her/hers
Please share with:
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I am beyond thrilled to announce that Carli Rhoades, Alice Kabia, Margret Gleberman and myself have been accepted into the 16th annual International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival !!!
We will return, this May, armed with another of Carolyn Gage’s short plays : a two hander titled The Obligatory Scene. Our slot in the 16th annual festival will be directed, acted, managed and produced and made completely possible by queer artists in their twenties.
Look Who’s Back:
This season three powerhouse queer thespians and activists are joining joining this transAtlantic journey. We will be armed with an intimate play revolving around the topics of intimate consent and the healing of sexual assault survivors.
From playwright Carolyn Gage via her Butch Visability Project ; we are continuing the fight for visibility as instrumental to affirming identities, providing role models, and preserving excluded perspectives that would otherwise be tossed aside. For the second time we have consciously the perspective of a queer butch female as the focus of our stage. We are openly talking about the aftermath of sexual assault and the long road of healing for survivors.
Yes, we pass the Bechdel test. Yes, we ensure our audience are hearing queer perspectives. Yes, we ensure our audience are hearing female perspectives.Yes, we believe survivors. Yes, you need to see this play.
This play is honest, it comes directly from its source, and allows us to represent ourselves. This piece makes space for conflicting definitions of sexual feminism and charts a new course for supporting victims of sexual abuse.
The contemporary public is finally ready for this discourse about sexual assault and the healing of it’s victims. It is our assertion that the Trump Presidency, #metoo movement, and the bravery of women such as: Anita Hill, Dr. Christine Ford, Stormy Daniels, and Jill Herth have brought the conversation of consent and healing from sexual assault into the public sphere unlike ever before. Obligatory Scene presents a debate of whether it’s possible for survivors of sexual assault to want to have a sexual relationship to their partner. We have a very important and controversial point to bring to the table.
This play presents the audience with an honest, dynamic, brave question: how do we aid in the healing of sexual assault? This show is about the journey from not having any of the answers to creating them.
We need your help:
We are actively fighting the stigma of shame around asking for money to support artists. We need your help to make logistics of our production possible! Every penny of your contributions will fund plane tickets, rehearsal space, lodging for our cast & crew of 4 , and paying our collaborators for their beautiful work a breakdown of which you will find below:
Plane Tickets: $350 each (x4) = $1,400
Rehearsal Space: $600
Lodging in Dublin: $1,000
Stipends: $800
Insurance: $1,000
Baseline cost of taking the production to the festival: $4,800
The remaining will go towards costumes, props, set design, etc...
Any contributions are greatly appreciated, and whether you can or cannot donate, please share our production link with others and invite anyone who will be in Dublin during our run.
Your funding provides a band of highly capable young qualified artistic minds to use their talent, rather than resting on the haunches of their millennialism. Our political climate demands our work embody relevant aptitude and daring boldness to ensure it holds the population’s attention in the battle between numerous hugely deserving causes and a bleak decent into complacency.
Come See Us!
We will be in Dublin at the Teachers Club Studio playing 13th-18th of May (2019).
All evening performances will be held at 21:00, and our Saturday matinee will be at 16:00. (Sat 18th)
Get tickets HERE!
Or visit: https://gaytheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows
We will be keeping all our supporters updated with the play’s progress as we move forward, so keep an eye out!
Check Us Out:
Carli Rhoades:(Vivey) is a Queer Artist and Activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and her special interests include donuts, cats, puppets, and liberation for all.
(http://carlirhoades.com/)
she/her/hers
Alice Kabia: (Dru) is thrilled to join this ensemble. Having just left touring with the National Players, they are excited to travel again and this time across the pond. Regional credits: Olney Theatre Center: Twelfth Night (Hall), The Crucible (Danforth/Tituba), Around the Workd in 80 Days (Ensemble); Speakeasy Stage Company: Men on Boats (Hall) and New Rep Theatre: Baltimore (Alyssa). Other credits include Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Lead Player). EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University.
they/them/theirs
Amelia Cain: The driving directional force behind this production, Mia is face meltingly passionate. An director, actor, model and puppeteer based in Brooklyn, Mia holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. This will be the second time contributing to the International Dublin Gay Theatre festival. A Puppetry instructor with Shadow Box Theater and a puppeteer for Puppetsburg. Recent credits include: a devised section of the Odyssey at Port Finge for Pop Up Odyssey, work as both a performer and divisor on Are You Alice an immersive piece with their company: Permafrost Theatre Collective, Chorus in Hamlet Isn’t Dead’s all female production of Henry the Fifth, Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra at the Slipper Room, and Rebbeca in Ashes to Ashes with the Invisible Girls Theatre co. Directorial credits include WE ReMember by Amy Oestreicher, Easter Sunday by Carolyn Gage, The Zero Hour by Madeline George, Passing by Haley Jakobson, and an adaptation of Justin Butcher’s Scaramouche Jones. (http://ameliacain.com)
she/hers, they/them
Margaret Gleberman: Is a organizational force to be reckoned with. Freelance stage manager extraordinaire and a recovering architecture student, Margo is based in New York. She is keeping our heads on straight while coordinating all the shows‘ details internationally. She enjoys puzzles, the word hootenanny, and the Oxford comma. Recent work includes The End of Mermaids (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Then She Fell (Third Rail Projects), and Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company).
she/her/hers
Carolyn Gage:
Named ‘one of the best lesbian playwrights in america’ by the Lambda Book Report, she wrote this kick ass play as a part of her Butch Visibility project. The author of more than seventy-five plays, including musicals, one-acts, one-woman shows and dramas and also the author of twelve books. Her work is widely published and performed and she tours in her own shows, offering lectures and workshops on lesbian culture and history. Obligatory Scene can be purchased in hard copy at her website.
( http://carolyngage.weebly.com/)
she/her/hers
Please share with:
#ObligatoryScenebyCarolynGage #carloyngage #obligatorysceneplay #obligatorysceneIDGTF #youngqueergingerpuppeteers #webelievesurvivors #believewomen #ibelievesurvivors #butchvisability #femaleartists #womenintheater #metoo #actors #acting #theatre #theater #makeart #queerhistory #dublintheatre #theatremakers #ladyteam #queerteam #dublinherewecome #lgbtqia #queerart #femmebutchlife #IDGTF #IDGTF2019 #queertheatre #queertheater #queer #femalepower #BossFemales #storytelling #badasswomen #badassqueers #lesbians #expandthecanon #supportfemmes #supportbutchesintheatre #supportbutchesintheater #supportqueertheater #feminist #makewhatyoulove #lovewhatyoumake #badass #supportqueerart #shedirector #tamingoftheshrew #artofasking #queerthestage #ringofkeys
Organisator
Mia Cain
Organisator
Brooklyn, NY
