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NAKED LADIES is a layered history of naked female bodies in performance. A combination of storytelling, performance art and her own personal anecdotes, Thea asks tough questions around the 'nature' of the female body, trying to understand its contested position between stigma and celebration. She asks about the obscuring of queer bodies, the erasure of black bodies, and the way these are played problematically across her own, white, read-as-straight body. Between the naked and the nude, between forgetting fathers and remembering mothers, past sexual stigma and personal secrets, NAKED LADIES ask why women get naked on stage. Why, where and for whom?
While certainly intellectual, NAKED LADIES is never inaccessible. Rather, this thoughtful, intimate show attempts to connect with the audience, to tell secrets and share stories and histories, in order to talk about bodies in a way we are often not allowed. To laugh at bodies, to celebrate bodies. To return to our bodies, and find on them the stories of so many other women. To make our bodies historical.
TEAM:
Written & Performed by Thea Fitz-James Directed by Zoë Erwin-Longstaff
BIO:
Thea Fitz-James is part academic and part theatre practitioner. Thea is a theatre maker and performance artist, having created work with FADO in Toronto, Secret Theatre in Halifax and the School of Making /Thinking in New York. Her most recent work explores contemporary depictions of women and feminism, integrating performance art and theatre to ask difficult questions around cultural norms. She is currently working on her PhD in Performance Studies at York University.
★★★★★ "A dense, daring and brave production. This is really what the fringe is all about.” - Global
★★★★★ “A bold and brilliant one-woman show. ” -Edmonton Journal
★★★★ “Fitz-James is a candid and lively performer” -Vue Weekly
VENUE: Drake Underground
DATES
Thursday, August 4, 7pm
Friday, August 5, 8:30pm
Sunday, August 7, 6:15pm
Monday, August 8, 8:30pm
Thursday, August 11, 5:15pm
Friday August 12, 8pm
Photo: Thea Fitz-James
2016-07-17
SummerWorks: Naked Ladies