FEMININE OCTAGON [OR, ARISTOTLE CAN EAT ME]
World Premier @ Rough Draft Festival, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, March 2019
FEEL REEL
SUMMARY AND CREDITS
FEMININE OCTAGON [OR, ARISTOTLE CAN EAT ME] by Amy Gijbers van Wijk
Direction: Anne Demelo
Scenic Design: Caitlin Ayer
Costume Design: Nina Bova
Lighting Design: Andrew DG Hunt
Music: Joseph White
Allure and Candy become goddesses. A man falls from the sky. Flowers + Mary Shelley fall in love. And cam girl Eurydice_19969 wants to make that ca$$$h. feminine octagon [or, aristotle can eat me] examines what it means to be femme and feminine, and how that is commodified and curated, socially, economically, and online. A rave, fever dream, and a non-linear narrative exploring and exploding Aristotelean play structure. One hour, one night, one hundred nights in the search for an unforgettable, life-changing party.
The lighting drew on the ideas of High Femme, and Camp in order to create a constantly shifting environment of color, angle and texture that would make the audience eye adjust to a new definition of “white light” in each scene, making our perception of each new scene and each new color palette more vivid with each change. Our eyes adjust over the course of a scene, and then we are presented with something entirely new, lending a fluid experience to the sense of perception as well as the sense of narrative created by Amy GVW.
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