An innovative, bold and experimental queer feminist retelling of Faust, combining music, poetry, movement, and textile and fibre arts to explore intersections of knowledge, power, community, and love.
Plain Bad Heroine is queer feminist retelling of the legend of Faust, inspired by The Story of Mary MacLane, in which woman is both the Devil and the damned. Faust is born into a a mystical realm of metal, wire, taffeta and tulle. She witnesses the sharing of Knowledge, as controlled and kept by Men. Enamoured, seduced and intrigued by Knowledge, she is determined to obtain it through striving within the systems and institutions controlled by Men. Realising her efforts are futile, she resolves, in a state of desperation, to make a deal with the Devil, sacrificing her mortality to obtain infinite Knowledge. This bold, experimental theatre production is a playful combination of music, poetry, movement, textile and fibre arts, creating a uniquely immersive audience experience that interrogates marginalised people's barriers to knowledge and power. Plain Bad Heroine questions definitions of knowledge and power, and what they look like when wielded by those who are not freely granted access to them. It illuminates intersections between knowledge, community, love and power through innovative interdisciplinary weaving of artistic disciplines and storytelling.
