Out of the Woods

March 9th @ 7PM, March 10th @ 7PM, March 13th @ 9:30PM, March 14 @ 9:30PM

Phoebe Dunn — Writer, Performer

Joanne Kelly — Director

Sarah Woods — Lighting Designer

Let’s face it, it’s hard to talk about sex and sexuality. Those words mean something entirely different to each one of us. They’re hugely complicated symbols - containing multitudes of experiences and perspectives, not to mention the differing values and judgments various cultures, religions, races, classes, and genders have staked around them.

But in this piece, Phoebe simply attempts to solve the mystery of…herself. She holds out a hand to the audience, asking “why do I like what I like?” We jump down the rabbit hole with her, and in short, active, fairytale like vignettes, she teases apart her identity and sexuality - her discovery of kink and BDSM, her father’s illness, her British and American heritage, and many sexual and romantic experiences with men and women. Is this what kink and BDSM looks like? An excerpt from a Jane Austen novel? YES! In Phoebe’s case, it does!

Phoebe throws down a gauntlet and holds up a mirror – asking the audience to examine themselves as honestly and thoroughly as she does. It is a playful, imaginative, and cheeky romp through a life lived in both conventional and unconventional ways – forcing us to ask ourselves what those terms really mean. Maybe BDSM and kink are not “other” but something that can and perhaps does live within each of us in differing degrees.