$20 general admission - Space is very limited.
$35 - One Night Only Opening Night event on August 18th, featuring a 7 PM performance, open bar, and musical performance/cocktail hour to follow. Ferries run to and from Manhattan until 10 PM.
Exquisite Corpse Company invites you to a wedding…or perhaps the funeral…
…Join the celebration and jump to the surreal world of A Ribbon About a Bomb. Audiences will divide and wander with Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington through the abandoned halls of a mansion on Governors Island. The show cycles and muses on, as often the artists did in life, the duality of humanity, womanhood, and art. The captivating, sometimes terrifying, work of these three women intertwine, as each attempts to shape their own reality in the face of systematic oppression and entrenched social hierarchies.
Directed by Tess Howsam and written by a diverse team of ten playwrights, the piece will feature and original score by KG Garligton and will be performed within original art installations. The show will also highlight an exciting partnership with Nineteenth Amendment, whose designers have created costume pieces specifically for the show, inspired by the production’s source material.
written by Karina Billini, Blake Bishton, Phillip Christian Smith, Georgina Escobar, Emily Krause, Elizagrace Madrone, Alexandra Paola, Alexis Roblan, Carmen Rivera, Alisa Zhulina
created & directed by Tess Howsam
technical direction Lee Collins
stage manager Jillian Goldstein
lighting design by Sara Gosses
sound design by Carsen Joenk
costume design by Matsy Stinson
fashion partner: Nineteenth Amendment
dramaturgy by Carsen Joenk
original score by KG Garlington
art design by Andrea Caldarise, Lee Collins, Sara Gosses, Tess Howsam, Mila Villasana
featuring Christian Cato, Stephanie Chloe Hepner, Mindy Escobar-Leanse, Andrea Lopez, Blaire O’Leary, Sara Ornelas, Robyn Unger, Zosha Warpeha, & Rosie Yadid
The dualities that exist within women and art are explored in A Ribbon About A Bomb, written by a team of 10 playwrights, created and directed by Tess Howsam, and currently playing in an abandoned Colonels Row house on Governors Island. Exquisite Corpse Company has crafted an intimate and immersive performance in which audience members can participate and go on a journey with the characters. Two tracks run parallel to each other with different actors playing the same characters: A Celebration of Love and A Service of Remembrance, or a wedding and a funeral. The two intersect at various points and follow a similar trajectory but each can stand on its own. A Ribbon About A Bomb is ostensibly about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (Robyn Unger and Sara Ornelas) and, to a lesser extent, two of her contemporaries: Mexico-based surrealist artists Remedios Varo (Stephanie Chloe Hepner and Andrea Lopez) and Leonora Carrington (Mindy Escobar-Leanse and Blaire O’Leary). But the larger theme is the forced dichotomy placed on female artists to separate their womanhood from their art, and how these three artists rebelled against that. Much of the play explores Kahlo’s reasonably difficult …Read more
