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(re)FOCUS FEST: Take/Sacrifice and The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G

The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street)
Philadelphia, PA

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To purchase tickets to these shows, please go to the festival pass page at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2517088

Take/Sacrifice by Kaleid Theatre

In history and in myth, we sacrifice humans to win battles, mitigate crop failure, or maintain peace. Iphigenia was sacrificed for wind to take her father's army to Troy and Jephthah offered his own daughter in exchange for victory in battle. We trade human lives to shape the world and ask for cosmic favors.

Take/Sacrifice, explores this space of desire, a landscape littered with those we have sacrificed to secure the things we want. Surrounded by iconic figures and archaeological mysteries, our wishes become reflections of ourselves - what we want from the world, how we want the world to behave, and the lengths we are willing to go to make it so. What do we cling to? What do we want so much that we'll destroy each other for it?

The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G written by TS Hawkins & directed by Cheyenne Barboza

The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G highlights the embryonic spark of when all girls gather; soothing ones aches, sorting each ones puzzles and sharing ones triumphs with her chosen collective and explores the spark of womanhood while asking the question, "do our societal truths alter how we embrace ourselves?" Using poetics dialogue, these seven girls journey through their assigned genders and discover how their differences bring them together.

Please note: this production of Take/Sacrifice includes strong language (cursing), verbal descriptions of real life and imagined violent acts, and a few instances of physical violence as well as near nudity.