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. DENTATA: New work from an award-winning idiot. Join Beth Anne (a woman!), a middle-aged beauty queen (almost!), who has spent her life shape shifting into what she thinks others want, only to realize she doesn’t know herself at all. She looks for her reflection in Medusa, the Sirens of The Odyssey, and the Weird Sisters of Macbeth. These misunderstood women (women!) pull her through the…