3Girls Theatre Company Presents our 4th Annual New Works Festival at Thick House Theatre
3GT Honors Risky Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc!
ABOUT OUR FESTIVAL EVENTS
3GT ANNUAL LOBBY ART EXHIBIT
RISKY WOMEN: WREAKING HAVOC!
Exhibit is open to the public during the Festival week ofAugust 3-9, beginning 30 minutes before each performance. Meet the artists at our Champagne Reception, Aug. 8, 4:30- 6 pm
Each year, 3GT invites outstanding female visual artists to collaborate with us by curating an exhibit based on our Festival theme . This year’s guest curator is artist Denise Doyle, and participating artists include Chantelle Goldthwaite, Adrienne Bolsega (aka Opal Essence) and
Beth Benson.
CURATOR’S STATEMENT
“Look, Listen, Pause” by Denise Doyle © 2015
Risky Women: Wreaking Havoc!
A sassy, sexy, risky show of female artists who push the boundaries of being.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” Hunter S. Thompson
So many of us are taught to play it safe, look and act a certain way, to maintain control, to strive to be something resembling “normal”. Life as a woman on this planet really isn’t that onedimensional, now is it? And maybe for some of us, it never was. One of the definitions of Havoc is to destroy or devastate. Four female artists take a look at the inner and outer worlds of femininity, sexuality, spirituality, and create work that is, in some way, risky. We are walking the edge, acting impulsively or spontaneously, and sometimes flying entirely out of control. These four artists are wreaking havoc with our preconceived notions of normal, confiding in our desires, inspiring confessions and creative outbursts...and showing us what it looks like to take risks & push the boundaries of being.
Denise Doyle, Curator
More information about the show and the artists online at 3girlstheatre.org.
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About the 3GT New Works Festival: 3GT’s annual New Works Festival represents the very best of 3GT's work in developing, producing and promoting original work by women playwrights throughout the year. Each year we choose a theme for the festival to focus our work and help the community rally around important issues. This year's theme is 3GT Celebrates Risky Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc! It calls attention to the need for women who break rules and defy the norm—values embodied by our resident playwrights, company members and this year's featured community and artistic collaborators.
About 3Girls Theatre Company: 3GT’s mission is to develop, produce and promote new plays written by San Francisco Bay Area women playwrights. In 2011, San Francisco playwrights Suze Allen, AJ Baker and Lee Brady decided it was time to stop complaining about the lack of opportunities for women playwrights in American theater and take action. With fearless enthusiasm, the three Girls set about recruiting a company of amazing women who shared their vision to “put women’s work on stage where it belongs.” Today, 3GT’s resident playwrights collaborate with one another and the larger community to create and support extraordinary new work by women playwrights through three core programs: the annual New Works Festival. the intimate Salon Reading Series, and full productions of new plays. 3GT also sponsors outreach programs that develop new playwrights, empower girls, and nurture LBT playwrights and performers.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE but advance reservations highly recommended. More information and tickets online at 3girlstheatre.org. Media contact: Lisa Geduldig, , 415-431-7363.