DIVAfest 2003

DIVAfest 2003 is a two week celebration of womanhood emblazoning the four EXIT stages with plays, solos, cabarets and comedy featuring a bevy of the very finest post modern prima donnas. The shows include:

Executive Order 9066: Written and performed by Lunatique Fantastique
Performance alchemist Liebe Wetzel and her award-winning puppetry ensemble tell the story of a family caught in the national hysteria that led to the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II.
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Toasted: Written and Performed by Elisa DeCarlo.
After a drunken party, comedienne Elisa DeCarlo checks her email and discovers a shocking, detailed confession of murder. The true story from the women at the center of the case that made international headlines, including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and “Dateline NBC.”
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Einstein’s Daughter’s Cabaret
An Excerpt from Einstein’s Daughter with a new work in progress. Created and Performed by Kim Epifano with Tara
Brandel and Sarah Luella Baker, sound by Rodney Johnson. Kim Epifano brings her trademark movement theatre and incendiary presence to the DIVAfest stage.
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Tincture: By Sean Owens
A diaphanous set of exchanges between six women, whose individual views on color and causality influence the group’s
trajectory and the Collective Unconscious. This is a foxtrot between two vanguards of libidinous feminism. A visual feast for the minds eye.
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Winterkill: Written and Performed by Denise B. Flemming.
Each year during the hunting season, innocent fawns are slaughtered; it is called the time of the winterkill.
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Agroof
This is an Odyssey of Amorous Adventures in B flat. Created and Performed by Monkeyhouse. Boston’s wig wearin’, globe trottin, dance theater collective, perform an exciting assortment of sexy satirical solos and duets exploring the ubiquitous rituals of mating.
Tickets are $12.00-$20.00 Sliding Scale; $10.00 Matinee

Cabaret Rebel: Written and Performed by Beth Wilmurt.
An evening of cabaret with its shoes kicked off and top button undone – cool, quirky, and sexy good!
Tickets are $10.00

Box Car Bertha: By Kerry Reid, performed by Christina Augello.
Reading from a new one person play about the famous activist who rode the rails in the 1930’s. A rugged woman’s hard living depression era saga.
Tickets are $5.00

Stretch Marks: Written and Performed by The Drama Mamas, Sarah Cluf, Jodi Schiller, Christine Armand DiBiasi, and Christine Garofoli.
The Drama Mamas’ dramatic collage of the contradictory facets of motherhood. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and when you get home, you’ll call your mother!
Tickets are $5.00

Stage Door: By Edna Ferber & George Kaufman
A reading to benefit DIVAfest. Join us at the New York boarding house of Mrs. Orcutt, where hopes and ambitions of sixteen wanna-be actresses who have come there to pursue careers are hilariously revealed. A cast of DIVAfest all stars give this classic drama the once over.
Tickets are $20.00

Twenty Years of Diva
On display in all four DIVAfest venues a showing of select photographs by accomplished local photographer Laurie Gallant.