“Feminists are Funny,” a 70-minute play featuring the Guerrilla Girls On Tour, will be presented Thursday, May 15 at 7 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.
The performance is free and open to the public; seating is limited. Advance tickets may be picked up in Visual Arts Room 101.
Guerrilla Girls on Tour, a 26-member company that advocates on behalf of women and artists of color, creates and performs plays, street actions, visual work and residency programs that dramatize women’s history. Each performer takes the name of a dead woman artist and wears a gorilla mask to focus on the issue, not the performer.
“Feminists are Funny,” is an energetic romp through some of the troupe’s street theater protests. It explores some of the funniest female activists and their accomplishments and recaps the current events in politics, the performing arts and media.
The ensemble has toured through 30 states and six countries and has been featured in The London Times, Village Voice and The New York Times.
The group's appearance at Union has numerous sponsors, including the Department of Visual Arts Walter C. Baker & William B. Jaffe Fund; Michael S. Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative; and the Women’s and Gender Studies Saddock Fund for Women and the Arts.
For more information, contact the Department of Visual Arts at 388-6714.