and Maureen Seaton
The Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents
Friday, April 5th, 8pm
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by
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton |
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Adapted,
Produced, and Directed by
Emily Rems Original Score by Anya Singleton and Michael Aarons |
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(Please note that this program contains adult content.) Watch here for upcoming details of our cast of Olive Oyls! |
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| Emily Rems is a Director, Producer and Playwright based in New York where she is a member of the city's longest running Women's theater collective, WOW Cafe Theatre and where she toils valiantly in the trenches of her favorite feminist quarterly, BUST Magazine. She started her company, Banshee Productions, in 1998 with the mission to produce "Contemporary Works By Hep Chicks." | |
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Admission:
$7 ($5 for HVWC members)
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Olive
Oyl has much more to say than Help Popeye, help! Luckily, poets
Denise Duhamel (Winner of the 1999 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize) and
Maureen Seaton (Winner of The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Poetry Prize,
the Lambda Literary Award and the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize) have given
the comic book heroine a new voice and have exposed the sexy little secrets
and butchy savoir faire that are really behind Olive Oyl's remarkable
staying power. Her various incarnations throughout history, her turbulent
love triangle between Popeye and Bluto and her true yearnings for women
and oversized boots are but a few of the revelations brought to life by
the astonishingly surreal cast of this one-act-wonder.