Performed: Fall 2019
Written by: Clare Barron
Director: April Sweeney
What could this play possible have to do with Antigone?
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. It is a world in which one knows not the power she possesses because it is against one’s time, a world that fights for the allowance of female ambition and deep kinship of sisterhood through pain and sacrifice.
It is a raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity… It’s a brave, visceral, excitingly off-kilter barbaric yawp of a play. It’s angry, and it’s sad. It’s brash, and it’s funny. And it gets at something excruciatingly tender: the burden of modesty on young American women. It feels like a playwright declaring her manifesto: No more apologizing. No more downplaying my own talent. No more choosing nice over brilliant, nice over best. No more insidious, self-sacrificing, meek, accommodating, damaging fear.
— Sarah Holdren
Performed by Colgate students and community members.
