Pier One Theatre and Bunnell Street Arts Center present:

Sandglass Theatre

Sandglass Theater is a renowned theater company specializing in combining puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. We are delighted to partner with Bunnell Street Arts Center to host them for a week long residency and performance.

FERAL

A piece about women and wolves

Have you heard the joke about the she-wolf that is bitten by a werewolf and turns into a woman? This production presents the punch line of this strange and dark farce of domestication. Feral invites audiences on a woman’s journey as she experiences the tension between her intuitive knowledge and learned societal behavior, captured by an allegorical transformation into a werewolf. As the woman tries to reintegrate this wild voice, she wrestles with her sanity while being diagnosed with a growing feral condition. Within the protection of her domelike dress, domestic acts are disrupted by ancestral visitations and dreams of wolves.

Length of show: 60 minutes, no intermission
Recommended audience: ages 14 and up

Creator/Project Director: Shoshana Bass
Performance Ensemble: Shoshana Bass, Dey Hernández, Sarah Nolen
Devising Ensemble: includes Stoph Scheer
Technical Director and Designer: Maria Pugnetti
Musician and Composer: Molly Steinmark
Stage Director: Sarah Nolen
Outside Eye: Eric Bass
Writing Collaborator: GennaRose Nethercott
Social Dramaturg and Research Collaborator: Paulina Mendez

Synopsis: 

A wolf-who-is-no-longer-a-wolf returns to the forest, within her the violation of domestication, a claim of ownership on her body. She yearns for instincts of which she feels only traces. This is a story of disruption within a woman’s life when the wolf inside her howls, and the possibilities of reintegration with that feral voice. "Feral" addresses the act of making visible the work of women through celebrating intuitive knowledge, how it is housed in our bodies, and how it can be used as a tool for individual and cultural repair. 

This program is made possible with support by the National Performance Network and co-commissioners, The Yard (Chilmark, MA), Bunnell Street Arts Center (Homer, AK), Next Stage Arts Project (Putney, VT), and Dancers’ Workshop (Jackson, WY).