How to be a Doll
Playing March 13th-23rd at Access Theater
380 Broadway, 4th Floor at White Street
Tickets available at www.smarttix.com
Directed and created by Genevieve Gearhart
Text by Alissa Riccardelli
“You wonder what kind of life you would
live if everything made sense.
Wouldn't that be boring?”
A mixture of dance, movement, and spoken word poetry,
It is centered on the issues of young women, particularly issues of self.
It speaks of women with muffled voices, of their rich inner lives and their
silence on the outside. It is about the struggle between what one should be
and what she wants to be and the failure to find the balance, reacting
against her mother and the fear of reacting at all. This piece addresses
the questions: is a person what she projects, or what she is internally? If
she is aware of herself and her perception, why is it so frightening to
share it? This is a piece about fear: the fear of being alone, and above
that, the fear of love. Although the desire exists in everyone to step
outside of one’s surroundings, the fear of walking can be suffocating.
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