MAINSTAGE Prowling the Abyss by Karen Anne Light
About This Show
At Medusa’s comedy club, the host is no longer the Medusa of myth. She is a queer femme battling femmephobia. From dating horrors to her own mythology, misogyny skulks.
The other “comics,” all played by Karen Anne Light, express parts of the Femme archetype, derailing the show. Butter Sandwich strains to share poetic insights about…”food”… but she’s so exhausted she can’t get off the floor. Tremble Lip, a breathy, sweet femme just wants to ride in cars, drinking milkshakes with the butch of her dreams. These characters guide the audience in reassembling the fragmented mythology of Queer Femme.
About the Artists
Karen Anne Light is an actress who creates collaborative, devised theatre. Productions include: ‘Sisters of Rapture’ and ‘Unblinking Eye’ (NYC); ‘Portals’ and ‘Alice Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole’ (San Francisco); ‘Different’ with Theater Grottesco (Santa Fe, NM). She is in ongoing collaboration with playwright Justin Anderson Taylor, and directors Elizabeth Baron, Simone Federman, and Jessi Hill, and appears as Nancy 3 in The Fae, a Brooklyn-based queer fantasy TV series. www.karenannelight.com
Elizabeth Baron is an award-winning teacher, director, actor, and collaborative theatre maker. She leads mask, voice, acting, red nose, and movement workshops and classes throughout the US and Internationally, and is a faculty member at Hélikos (Italy).. Recent Directing credits: ‘Yay, America!’ (Critics Choice Award – PortFringe, The Brick), ‘Adam & Eve on a Raft’ (Best of SF Fringe), ‘Magical Mystery Detour’ (Best of Fest, Victoria Fringe & BIFF), ‘Pio Mare….Mare Pio’ (Italy). lalatheater.blogspot.com
MON. JULY 25, 2022 7:30 PM
General Admission
$18 in advance
$21 at the door
Students/Seniors
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
65 minutes
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