Posts Tagged ‘Fringe Festival’
Hip Shot: ‘Not Your Granny’s Revolution’
Not Your Granny’s Revolution
Goethe Institut
Remaining Performances: Wednesday, July 22 at 6:15 pm. Thursday, July 23 at 8:00 pm.
They Say: A storytelling play created by Laura Zam (“A name to know”-The Washington Post) and ensemble cast. What does it mean to be a woman in today’s world? Five females find revolution in a Paris tryst, a royal beheading, and fighting AIDS.
Ann’s Take: Long ago when I was in college, my good friend began embracing the term “chick” as an appropriate way to describe a new generation of feminism. I think “chick” is a rather brilliant signifier, describing female-specific content that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Plus, this coinage reclaims the word from its more demeaning form (an activity socio-political-activist-types adore). So, at the risk of scaring off male audience members and pissing off old-guard feminists, I’ve decided Not Your Granny’s Revolution is a chick show—that is, a show about chicks who have moved past the sensitive diatribes and onto the self-aware humor of personal discovery.
