| Description | “Watching Cherdonna Shinatra crash into A Doll’s House was the first time I ever had fun watching A Doll’s House” (Gemma Wilson*)
Come witness a conversation between dancer/choreographer and drag performance artist Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra) and artist and dramaturg Maggie L. Rogers. The conversation will focus particularly on Kuehner and Rogers' 2017 production, "Cherdonna's A Doll's House,” staged in collaboration with the Washington Ensemble Theater on Capitol Hill. Cherdonna is Kuehner’s movement-based persona, a vehicle for exploring self and gender. How did Kuehner and Rogers hope to shake up the celebrated (yet stagnant?) gender politics of Henrik Ibsen’s play on the American stage?
* Wilson, Gemma. "A Wild Child’s Identity Crisis: Cherdonna Shinatra Falls Into ‘The Doll Pit'" in American Theatre, 17 May, 2021 |
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