A brand-new feminist comedy show
"I would see the sh*t out of that."
George Fowler
Waiting for Shark Week is a brand-new feminist comedy show. Vagimir and Estrogen are stuck in the Patriarchy waiting for the arrival of Equality. Prepare yourself for: silly sketches, fun clowns, vignettes of old Hollywood films or classic plays reimagined to give womxn agency and make stuff pass the Bechdel test. We'll explore how some dead men (#notalldeadmen) impose their sexism from beyond the grave and deconstruct reasons like "women don't have prostates and couldn't portray the characters accurately". If only Beckett had known that womxn can pee too.
Despite the feminist shows and performance/creative opportunities for womxn*, theatres still keep putting on canonical works that exclude these very same people (to name one, Waiting for Godot). Why? Why perform those shows anymore? And why can’t we do them too? This show challenges that in a funny and clever way. We want to have fun with our feminism; we want to put up a show that addresses past and present misogyny and queerphobia, but we want to play, laugh, and bring joy to others while doing it.
You don't have to be a womxn or identify within the LGBTQIA+ team to have a good time at Waiting for Shark Week. If you're a straight, white, cis-man, we'd love to have you too.
May contain traces of blood. BYO moon cup.
Featuring: Stevie Hancox-Monk, Elle Wootton, Maggie Leigh White, Pippa Drakeford-Croad, and in her New Zealand debut, critically acclaimed Canadian actor Sarah Bergbusch.
Directed and co-written by award-winning playwright and director Lori Leigh.
*this is not a typo! 'womxn' is an alternative term for the English 'women', coined in 1971 at UC Davis.
“...‘womxn’ is finished in an endeavour to stress the concept that womxn are their own separate individuals...The new orthography is...seen as intersectional, because it is supposed to incorporate transgender womxn, womxn of color, womxn from Third World countires, and each different self distinguishing womxn out there.”
- Content credit: Knotty Vibes, https://medium.com/@knottyvibescompany/intersectional-feminism-101-what-is- womxn-36c0a3140126
Accessibility
The Random Stage is fully wheelchair accessible; please contact the BATS Box Office by 4.30pm on the show day if you have accessibility requirements so that the appropriate arrangements can be made. Read more about accessibility at BATS.
