[NEohioPAL]Red Hen Productions presents BODY OUTLAWS, March 6-29

[Red Hen Productions]

RED HEN PRODUCTIONS presents the first fully-dramatized performance of 

BODY OUTLAWS 
Edited by Ophira Edut Directed by Karen Gygli 
March 6-29, 2003 
Spaces Art Gallery 
2220 Superior Viaduct, Ohio City 

Red Hen Productions, Cleveland's Feminist Theatre, proudly announces its 
production of BODY OUTLAWS. Based on the book of essays edited by Ophira Edut, 
BODY OUTLAWS addresses the personal and social perceptions of body image 
through the funny and provocative stories of real women -- fat & small, black 
& white, straight & queer, athletic & disabled. Essay titles include My Brown 
Face; Fishnets, Feather Boas and Fat; The Skinny on Small; Memoirs of a 
(Sorta) Ex-Shaver; and Klaus Barbie and Other Dolls I'd Like to See. 

Red Hen Productions performed these monologues in a staged reading
  at Loganberry Books in August 2001 and took BODY OUTLAWS to Lakeland 
Community College for Women's Health Month in September 2002. But this next 
production at Spaces Art Gallery isn't BODY OUTLAWS redux. It is instead an 
exciting project in progress: Red Hen has collaborated with Ophira Edut to 
develop and premiere the first-ever fully-dramatized version of her book. 

The BODY OUTLAWS cast includes return outlaw-actors Denise Astorino and Tina 
Thompkins. Red Hen is also pleased to welcome back Rose Leininger and Cat 
Kenney, who starred in Waving Goodbye last fall. Rounding out this talented 
cast is Jazmin Corona, making her Red Hen debut. 

Director Karen Gygli's past directorial credits for Red Hen include both 
staged readings of BODY OUTLAWS, Eight Impressions of a Lunatic and The Clue 
in the Old Birdbath. 

BODY OUTLAWS editor Ophira Edut is a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine and 
the founding publisher of HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters), an award-winning 
national magazine for young women. She has been featured in numerous 
anthologies and magazines and lectures nationwide about body image, media, 
culture and gender. 

Performances are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., 
March 6-29 at Spaces Art Gallery. Preview performance (with half-price 
admission) is on Thursday, March 6, with opening night on Friday, March 7. 
Tickets are $12, and $8 for students and seniors. 

Reservations are recommended: (216) 661-4301 or redhen at logan.com 
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Red Hen Productions 
PO Box 91926, Cleveland OH 44101 * (216) 661-4301 
http://www.logan.com/redhen/