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Philly
Fringe to Feature
Deep
Sea Theatre’s COLD FEET
Philadelphia, PA
– Deep Sea Theatre presents the world premiere of Cold Feet, a new play by
Kaleo Bird at The 2004 Philly Fringe Festival. Cold Feet, based on numerous interviews with women primarily in
the North Eastern states, is a fast-paced, frolicking collage of over 30
bride-to-be characters performed by Marla Burkholder, Courtney Spiker and
Kaleo Bird. There will be nine
performances between Saturday 9/4 and Sunday 9/12 at the Adrienne Theatre, 2nd
Stage. The Box Office (215-413-1318)
opens on August 23rd with tickets at $10 ($3 off for festival
members, $2 off for students and seniors).
Based on her
interviews with actual women, Bird’s characters examine the position of the
contemporary bride struggling with morphing gender roles, the death of
singledom, renegade bridesmaids, the deconstruction and re-construction of
relationships and the great garter belt debate. An occasional drop-in by “Maxine”, the wedding planner, reminds
us that weddings are war, but with a good French manicure the strong can
prevail.
When
Kaleo Bird got married two years ago, she was struck by the fact that there
were millions of resource books to help women plan their weddings but very
few resources that delved into the emotional changes that occur during this
rite of passage. Bird asks:
Why do women continue to marry even
though divorce statistics rise alarmingly and many women are now able to
support themselves financially on their own?
Do we marry for the same reasons that our mothers did? What do women
expect from marriage? How do they
define being a wife? What
expectations do they have about the wedding ritual or about their
relationships with their in-laws? Is monogamy a requirement for a marriage?
Is a man a requirement?
For
this project Kaleo Bird interviewed women in Philadelphia, Washington D.C.,
Virginia, and New York City. Their
answers were conflicted, funny, smart and sometimes not what she expected at
all. One bride expressed her
ambivalence about getting married: “If you ever express any apprehension
about getting married, people around you get all serious and say ‘Are you
sure you want to do this?’ or ‘It’s not too late to change your mind.’ They
totally miss the point. I knew that I wanted to get married after a week of
dating, but when people get all quiet and concerned and say, ‘Are you having
doubts?’ - I want to shake them and scream, ‘Of course I’m having doubts!
What kind of an idiot makes this kind of decision without having doubts?”
Kaleo
Bird founded Deep Sea Theatre in 2003 at The Philly Fringe with Beckett Slam,
a raucously thought-provoking, experimental montage of vignettes based on the
writings of Samuel Beckett, which played to sold-out audiences.
Performance Summary:
Show
Title: Cold Feet
Company:
DeepSeaTheatre
Artists:
Kaleo Bird and Marla Burkholder
Location:
The Adrienne, 2nd
Stage 2030 Sansom Street,
Philadelphia, PA
Dates: Sat. 9/4 @ 7pm
Sun. 9/5 @ 6pm
Mon. 9/6 @ 1pm & 7pm
Thurs. 9/9 @ 7pm
Fri. 9/10 @ 7pm
Sat. 9/11 @ 1pm
& 7pm
Sun. 9/12 @ 1pm
Tickets: $10, $3 off for festival members, $2 off for
students and seniors
Box
Office 215-413-1318 (opens
August 23rd)
www.liveartsandfringe.org
(tickets available
August 9th)
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Festival
Information:
The
Philly Fringe will run in tandem with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival,
from September 3-18, 2004. Guides, which include dates times and venues for
all performances for both festivals will be available August 6th,
2004. Tickets for the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe range from free to
$20 and can be purchased online beginning August 9th at
wwwliveartsandfringe.org or after August 23rd by calling (215)
413-1318.
The
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe were originally founded in
1997 as the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. This year we have repositioned the
two programming segments of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival as two separate,
distinct, concurrent festivals. The Live Arts Festival features selected
cutting-edge, boundary-breaking performing arts events, created by some of
the most renowned contemporary arts events, created by some of the most
renowned contemporary artists from our region and around the world. The
Philly Fringe – which provides opportunities for any artist, independent of a
selection process, to self-produce their work – represents the true
international “Fringe” movement.
Cold Feet
By Kaleo Bird
Tu Huynh
267-882-7778
KaleoTu@msn.com
· THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467),
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