This one-person show explores traditional gender norms by looking at popular culture through experiences of encountering and challenging these norms. An ensemble show bringing together a range of performance styles in order to explore the taboos surrounding frank discussions of death and its place in our lives and cultures. A group performance examining cultural memory as it is made, mediated, and managed through America s public spaces, such as newspapers, television and film, memorials and museums. This group performance incorporates and compares several different theories of directing, embodied in different vignettes about the impact of Disney as a cultural phenomenon. The power of silence is a power of something made of nothing.
Silence is political and personal.
This performance makes sounds about silence. No seating after performance begins. Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL 62901.