15 Aug Janvi’s Eye: The Personal is Political
Mentee Playwrights Zoë Geltman, Abigail Duclos, and Tess Interbitzin share their emotionally and politically charged new works at the Signature Center’s Linney Theatre.
Playwright Zoë Geltman presents a sharp, well-observed, and riotously funny new play A Safe Business, inviting audiences to reconsider the invisible mechanics of power in everyday mundanities and challenging their sense of powerlessness in the face of the authoritarian and patriarchal systems that shape daily life.
In Vengeance, Abigail Duclos creates an all-women fight club, whose members confront the violent and unseen misogynistic forces that pervade their bodies, minds, homes, and the streets they walk, while also unfolding an unapologetic story of sapphic love and sexuality.
Tess Interbitzin explores self-assertion and autonomy in Deja Deja Vu, a tapestry of interconnected characters navigating ambition, queer relationships, trans identity, the confinements of bodily illness, and the paradigm of isolation and connection.
Together, the Mentee Playwrights, along with Mentor Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader and Corner Nest Lab inaugurée Yahney-Marie Sangaré, have brought to life the Women in Agency Festival, exploring the full spectrum of personal, political, individual, and collective agency.
Janvi Sai