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Czech Girls!
by Brendon Votipka The Jameson Project, 2010 Director: David Ledoux Set Designer: Gennie Neuman Costume Designer: Kate Milazzo Apples to Apples
by Lisa Huberman The Jameson Project, 2010 Director: Shawn Renfro Set Designer: Gennie Neuman Costume Designer: Brigid Johnson All photography by Justin Smiley |
Czech Girls!
A new work by Brendan Votipka that examines the commodification of violence against women. Two sisters, Eva and Tereza, are renounced by their father and cast onto the street. Saved from poverty by Jakub, a porn producer, they begin a new life of glamour. Eventually the girls are bought by an American producer with the promise of more money and a happier life. However, Eva begins to loathe the physical and mental cost of making porn, and rebels the only way she can: violently making her body unsellable. Apples to Apples
A new work by Lisa Huberman that asks what happens when Cain runs away from home, right into the arms of the Devil? Lucifer and Lilith run the bar Damnation, and when Cain runs away from the responsibility of having killed Abel, he takes up work as a dishwasher for the Dark Lord. Both Eve and Adam come after him, trying to convince Cain to come home. Definitions of family and alliance change as Cain and Eve realize that Adam's repressed Puritanism is no match for Lucifer's sexy bar. |
These two plays were featured back-to-back as part of an original one-act play festival, where all four plays shared the same resources. The lighting for Czech Girls! seeks to juxtapose the relative naturalism of the girls' life before porn with the glitz and plastic of their stardom. The vibrant, fluorescent feeling increases as the girls move to America, until it consumes them. The lighting for Apples to Apples is much more relaxed, setting the fiery tone for Damnation.
Czech Girls!
Apples to Apples
