TRAD & DENTATA
The Rockwell, 255 Elm Street, Somerville, MA
TRAD & DENTATA TRAD is a theatrical tear-down of the modern phenomenon of trad—or traditional—wives and the associated Christian nationalist arsenal of beliefs, which also indulges our collective yearning for fantasies of escape. This trad wife is eternally rotund with her husband’s seed: What could possibly shake the ripeness of her faith in this idyllic existence! POV: Your husband is on his way home from work. You’ve got seven buns on the counter and one more in the oven, all baked from scratch, waiting for him. The peaches are bursting on the branches of your homestead’s orchard, while below ground, something is nearing completion. You hear capital H-I-M whisper through the prairie grasses a song that melts your obstinate will, beckoning you to enter a wonderland of reliance and submission. TRAD is directed by Iris McCloughan (Sad Boys in Harpy Land, Lempicka) and was initially co-directed/devised with Meaghan Robichaud ( MEOW!, Meaghan Robichaud is the Greatest Show on Earth ). Written and performed by Hannah Mitchell. “Mitchell does some absolutely wacky shit here…I howled…Praise be.” -Staff Picks “Mitchell’s performance is laugh-out-loud funny…it’s in these moments of…