S/he
Photos by Stephanie Mayer-Staley
S/he: A cross cultural exploration of the female body as a battleground.
Lindsey’s Oyster by Tammy Ryan
Last Exit Before the Bridge by Zeynep Kaçar
Featuring:
Elif Akbaydoğan (Turkey) Cem Baza (Turkey), Duygu Erdoğan (Turkey), Nick Fracaro (U.S.), Julie Reed (U.S.), and Gabriele Schafer (U.S.).
The Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY, May 2011
Garajistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2011
“…more revealing and profound than most plays twice as long.”
Luke Z. Fenchel, Ithaca Times, May 11, 2011.
Lindsey’s Oyster by Tammy Ryan
Last Exit Before the Bridge by Zeynep Kaçar
Featuring:
Elif Akbaydoğan (Turkey) Cem Baza (Turkey), Duygu Erdoğan (Turkey), Nick Fracaro (U.S.), Julie Reed (U.S.), and Gabriele Schafer (U.S.).
The Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY, May 2011
Garajistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2011
“…more revealing and profound than most plays twice as long.”
Luke Z. Fenchel, Ithaca Times, May 11, 2011.
Prologue Clip - Hi Res from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Sex Scene - Clip from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Rape - Clip from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Satellite Events for S/he:
Satellite events are added value experiences provided to the public forfree. These experiences provided opportunities for a deeper engagement with the subject of our production, and allowed members of the local community agency in our production.
For S/he I offered three types of Satellite Events:
Satellite events are added value experiences provided to the public forfree. These experiences provided opportunities for a deeper engagement with the subject of our production, and allowed members of the local community agency in our production.
For S/he I offered three types of Satellite Events:
Noor Hashem - Clip from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Culture Camp: Short pre-show lectures by members of the academic community about historical or cultural elements of Turkish culture. Here Noor Hashem argues for the liberation of choosing to cover.
Ithaca HS Students - Clip from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Local Experts: Post-show discussions with members of the local community who qualified as experts on one aspect of our story. Here Ithaca High School Students candidly discuss their sex lives.
Mock Trial from Melanie Dreyer on Vimeo.
Interdisciplinary collaboration: Using the story as the inspiration for teaching moments outside the discipline of theater. Here I worked with Cornell law students to construct a mock trial on the legality of banning the hijab when taking an exam.