Friedrich Schiller’s Bad Girls Club
by Erin Stoneking and Nick Fesette
March 12-14, 2015 | AGIT LAB 2014-15
Nick Fesette and Erin Stoneking co-devised and co-directed Friedrich Schiller’s Bad Girls Club, a Reality TV-Sturm und Drang mash-up, a multimedia Gesamtkuns-TWERK. Inspired by the so-called bad girls of popular culture (e.g. Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, “real” housewives, etc.) the directors held a series of (5-6) rehearsal workshops, in preparation for the final workshop-performances during AGIT Lab. These workshop sessions included a series of guided exercises, working through the role of bad girls and their relationship to gender, morality, the cult of wealth, diva-hood, youth, celebrity, sexuality, and violence. Using as a primary text of this work the 1781 closet drama The Robbers (Schiller), the two co-authors wrote a first draft adaptation of the script that re-genders this predominantly male play and incorporates found text from Reality TV, celebrity interviews, and other entertainment “news” media.
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