Curated Rental
Felicia Cooper
Please!
A New Woyzeck is erected as a pea-eating cam girl for the 21st century using puppetry, projection, and pop music. A high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, this performance explores the depths of surveillance, power and who holds it.
Dates
Fri, Sep 26, 12:00 am
Sat, Sep 27, 12:00 am
Sun, Sep 28, 12:00 am
A New Woyzeck is erected as a pea-eating cam girl for the 21st century using puppetry, projection, and pop music. A high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, this performance explores the depths of surveillance, power and who holds it.
Felicia Cooper
Please!
Directed by Lizz Windnagel
Projection Design and Technical Assistance by Davey T. Steinman
Dramaturgy by Sam Weisberg
Music by Lisa Frank
Credits: Please by Felicia Cooper, directed by Lizz Windnagel
Photo Credit: Richard Termine
This project, performed by Felicia Cooper, directed by Lizz Windnagel with music by Lisa Frank, dramaturgy by Same Weisman, and projection design and technical assistance from Davey T Steinman, is an evening-length performance using puppetry, miniatures, and new media. The script erects a modern Woyzeck, updated and befitting new conscriptions of power. As a cam girl, the New Woyzeck is both the object and subject of desire, pleasure, and purview. By squarely putting focus on the role of the individual in these power struggles, Buchner names an uncomfortable truth : that we are subjected to the whims of those in power, regardless of our complicity within the struggles themselves. Using multimedia elements including puppetry and projection to adapt a nearly 200-year-old play, this script extrapolates on the human condition’s unchanging imbalance of power in a class struggle. Drawing intentionally on the hoary and academic nature of Woyzeck’s role in the American theater, this is a sharp and funny reexamination of the role of the worker within society.
In a world of political unrest, traumatic social turmoil, and impending climate disaster, one play dares to ask the bold question: What if Woyzeck from Georg Buchner’s 1836 play Woyzeck was a cam girl?
This project is funded in part by the Tri M Foundation.
This show uses toy theater and live streamed projection.
This show includes discussion of sex work, surveillance, compulsion and disordered eating.
Accessibility
Red Eye’s space is fully wheelchair-accessible. Masks are highly encouraged. Some events require masking and masks will be available at the venue if you don't bring your own. Please only attend if you are feeling well, and if not, we are happy to change your tickets to a different day at no charge.