Equipped with a bulletproof vest, some know- how and a touch of irony, two icons of lesbian- feminist theatre use spoken word and movement as a call and response to urgent global predicaments.
Speaking from a microphone about her own narcissistic tendencies, fragile identities and privilege, Peggy Shaw’s poetic musings are interspersed with Lois Weaver’s micro dance essays in which she wryly upends ‘how to’ mania. Solo yet somehow interdependent, more than a hint of Narcissus and Echo emerges onstage.
Last Gasp brings prickly conversations literally to the table in episodes entitled ‘The Trump in Me’ and ‘How to Have the Last Word’, with the duo hitting upon survival strategies for a world collapsing around them.
…The fleet, surprisingly entertaining movie is alternately playful, surreal, pointed and poignant, and its nonlinear scenes incorporate many of Split Britches’ calling cards: autobiography, sly humor, pop-culture references (Bill Withers to Beyoncé) and questioning of gender. Elizabeth Vincentelli, NYT, Last Gasp WFH
Created in collaboration with Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Nao Nagai, Vivian Stoll
and Morgan Thorson Writers and Performers Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Director Lois Weaver
Visual/Lighting Design Nao Nagai
Sound/Music Design Vivian Stoll
Choreography Morgan Thorson
Costumes Susan Young
Design Consultation Matt Delbridge