Weekend Must-See: Sins Invalid in San Francisco
Tonight, I am headed to the 2009 production of Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility, and I can't wait.
Chloe interviewed the Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Patty Berne, last week, and in another interview, Berne explained what audience members should expect:
"In the theater, the audience seems to go through a kind of transformation as they bear witness, there's a real paradigm shift happening in the room. On stage, all these people that are considered somehow non-normative, expressing their power, sexually and politically, in a beautiful loving way. We're used to people who look like Paris Hilton saying they are hot. But we're not as used to us, the majority of humankind, being proud of our bodies. Most of us live with shame in our bodies. So when somebody that has a non-normative body expresses love and sexual power on stage it opens up an opportunity for audience members to claim their bodies are beautiful as well."
The show is hot and thought-provoking. You can still buy tickets for Saturday's and Sunday's shows!
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I'd love to see much, much more of this.
i just saw this last night and was blown away. it has completely enhanced the way i view disability, chronic illness, etc. (not to mention the fact that i loved that they made all of this into one with oppression, rape survivors, mental disabilities, etc!)
HOWEVER.... i am VERY interested in what you have to think, ariel (or anyone who saw this or will be seeing it for that matter)... about the doctor s&m scene. i know it was supposed to raise questions on white supremacy, but for some reason i DIDNT feel it actually play out that way. there was laughter throughout from the audience which i didnt understand and really confused me and perhaps is the reason why i didnt feel the seriousness or weightiness of what they were trying to convey.
also..... the nudity in that scene (i dont want to reveal anything, but im not just talkin bout being naked onstage. ariel, u kno wut i mean!) that ... was crazy. i must be a LOT more reserved than i thought i was, but .... that was just crazy. and wonder...was it necessary to take it that far?
i would love to hear people's thoughts on this!!!
I'm definitely gonna have a post up Monday about my thoughts! I feel like the laughter in that scene was partly nervous laughter from audience members, but also because it was meant to be sexy, and because some of the man's responses were so enthusiastic. I'm still kind of grappling with how that scene made me feel.