Experiments: The Second Body (A Play With Taxidermy)

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November 23

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Written & Created by Lyndsey Bourne
Directed by Kate Bergstrom
Movement Directed by nicHi douglas
With Taxidermists Divya Anantharaman and Kate Clark

An interdisciplinary ritual exploring psychic-surreal femininity and queer/feminist erotics, The Second Body is the story of Pearl, an isolated, artist/taxidermist haunted by her past and the female souls/voices of the animals that surround her. But Pearl is soon forced to embrace communion in her work when her new model, Alice, refuses to simply play the muse.With an all women/GNC company, the piece questions implicit embodiment in a disembodied time, asks about collective versus individual gain, feminine ecology and  "What does it mean to have a fallible body, to be a species?"

Featuring:
Socorro Santiago, Emily Davis, nicHi douglas, Denmo Ibrahim, Jennifer Kidwell,
Nikki Calogne, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Beth Griffith, Brooklyn Snyder

 

Cover Photo by Kate Clark, A Sense Of Purpose (2019)

About the Artists

Lyndsey Bourne is a queer Canadian playwright, teacher and a birth/abortion doula working with The Doula Project. Her plays have been developed with The Tank, Dixon Place, The Joust Theatre Company, New Georges, The Barn Arts Collective, Judson Church, Brooklyn College, Playwrights Horizons Downtown and Ars Nova. She was a 2019 Resident artist at The Barn Arts Collective and Judson Church. Lyndsey teaches playwriting at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU). She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant recipient. Lyndsey is represented by Abrams Artists Agency. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College
www.katebergstrom.com