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Split Britches has taken the material surrounding the Aileen Wuornos case and through film conventions, musical numbers and parody, explored angry and violent impulses in response to sexism. A tour de force for the butch/femme couple May and June, the play takes a satirical gender-bending look at what might motivate women and lesbians in particular to become killers. What does it take for women to have had enough?
Since 1980 Split Britches has transformed the landscape of queer performance. Their work is rooted in popular culture, but positioned against it. It relies on moments rather than plot, relationships rather than ...Read More
Split Britches has taken the material surrounding the Aileen Wuornos case and through film conventions, musical numbers and parody, explored angry and violent impulses in response to sexism. A tour de force for the butch/femme couple May and June, the play takes a satirical gender-bending look at what might motivate women and lesbians in particular to become killers. What does it take for women to have had enough?
Since 1980 Split Britches has transformed the landscape of queer performance. Their work is rooted in popular culture, but positioned against it. It relies on moments rather than plot, relationships rather than story. It depends on the surprise of transformation rather than the logic of conventional narrative. It straddles the line between performance and theatre, exploiting theatricality while exposing the pretence. It is about a community of outsiders, queers, eccentrics. It is feminist because it encourages the imaginative potential in everyone and lesbian because it takes the presence of lesbians on stage as a given.
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