Millennial Notes Jessica Dickey Provokes Reflections on Women’s Rights by Amy Deng What does it feel like to have a vagina? Nan Day, the cancer researcher in Jessica Dickey’s play, says it’s neither good nor bad, but rather confusing. In this entertaining and heartwarming play, Dickey spotlights women’s perspectives on their bodies and gender…
S.F. Mime Troupe Strikes Gold, Speaks Truth to Power by Barry David Horwitz All summer, you can go to Bay Area parks to see the S.F. Mime Troupe’s latest comedy musical called “Back to the Way Things Were.” They fill the parks with color and life, jokes and music—letting us know exactly who is…
Jacklyn Backhaus Spins Herstory from Medieval to Modern by Patricia L. Morin Jaclyn Backhaus’ “Wives,” a comic satire spanning five centuries in four acts, mixes exaggerated caricatures of women as they struggle with the roles of wife, lover, and mother. “Wives” begins in the kitchen of medieval French king Henry II, then whisks us…
Millennial Notes Matthew Sklar’s Tunes Thrust Homophobia into Full View by Ian Waters “The Prom” opened the week Roe v. Wade was overturned, and I passed multiple protests on the way. As I watched “The Prom,” a colorful fantasy land where kids wear backwards hats and a lifetime of homophobia can be overcome in…