Event

A Dozen Things

A Dozen Things I want to do on stage is a new one-woman cabaret by Rebecca Nagle. At the Load of Fun Theatre, the dozen things will be performed on the dozenth day of the sixth month in the ninth year of this millennium on occasion of the artists birthday. Of the dozen, Nagle will undress to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wnschen Drfte", fit in a small box, tell your secrets, discuss why something is racist, fall in love, read her fantasies, act out your fantasies, induce a tragedy, fall down, take truth serum while letting the audience ask her questions, tell a tall tale, and disembowel herself.

Using the format of 1920s political European cabaret, A Dozen Things combines contortion, burlesque, poetry, games, lecture, ritual, confession, audience participation, science experiments, real-life moments and staged performance to deliver hard truths, half-truths and straight up lies. The cabaret plays with the familiar themes and tropes of the human condition, namely: sexuality, violence, fantasy, love, tragedy, ecstasy, history, and death. Nagle pits reality and action against fantasy and performance for an all out social deconstructionist battle. Yet somewhere, during the skirmish, difference is eliminated, as she blurs the opposing forces.