Real Live Women

Six provocative new works from the Hourglass Solo Lab, including BabyLove, voted Best in Fringe, 2006 San Francisco Fringe.

The Hourglass Group Solo Lab serves a diverse community of women writer-performers in New York City by providing resources to support the development of their work. Hourglass’s Artistic Director Elyse Singer, who has directed numerous solo plays over the past 13 years, initiated the program in 2005 in response to a need she perceived within the company’s artistic community. A number of women artists associated with Hourglass had independently started to develop provocative new solo projects, but expressed the challenges of creating new work by oneself. Some of these pieces had been developed on the company’s annual Summer Retreat and playwriting classes; the Lab created a structure through which these artists could cultivate their plays.

Thu Nov 30 @ 7pm

Christen Clifford – BabyLove
A story of motherhood and sex, based on Clifford’s controversial essay for Nerve.com. What happens when your infant son becomes The Other Man?

Yolanda Shoshana – The Chrismahanukwanzakah Monologues
Inspired by Shoshan’s love/hate relationship with the holidays, the show poses the question: What is a black Jewish woman to do when she thinks that Christmas leaves Chanukah and Kwanzaa in the dust?

Linda Mancini – White Tape (excerpts)
A satiric commentary about why and how people have become American citizens. The focus is on characters who are not spoken about very often, like those who were here already, those who came unwillingly and those who came unknowingly over the course of the history of this country, and made it their own.

Wed Dec 6 @ 7pm

Christen Clifford – BabyLove
A story of motherhood and sex, based on Clifford’s controversial essay for Nerve.com. What happens when your infant son becomes The Other Man?

Raquel Cion – Cou-Cou Bijoux is alive, and well…
Accompanied by the lyric stylings of Brooks “Babyface” Hartell, Mme. Bijoux sings and speaks of love and other misfortunes.

Veronique Jeanmarie – Fifteen Dreams
A woman converses with an esteemed broadcast journalist.

Stacey Karen Robinson – Untitled
An intimate and irreverent journey into one woman’s messy, succulent life. It is also a mourning song.