Fri, May 08
|https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91586495173
BAD EGGS by Jessica Hood (BC)
Persephone and Hades have been trying to have a baby for nearly a year with no luck. Growing anxious, Persephone decides to see the fertility doctor, Eve, who also happens to be her mother. Problem is, Eve hasn’t spoken to her since she eloped with Hades, and Persephone has debilitating panic attack
Time & Location
May 08, 2020, 7:30 p.m. PDT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91586495173
About the Event
HOW TO ATTEND Click the link below at showtime - "doors" 5 minutes prior - latecomers welcome! Audience does not appear on screen. Capacity 100. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91586495173
ABOUT THE PLAY
Persephone and Hades have been trying to have a baby for nearly a year with no luck. Growing anxious, Persephone decides to see the fertility doctor, Eve, who also happens to be her mother. Problem is, Eve hasn’t spoken to her since she eloped with Hades, and Persephone has debilitating panic attacks whenever she tries to leave the house. Her world crumbling around her, Persephone must discover who she really is, aside from being a wife and daughter. Through a feminist and darkly comedic lens, bad eggs explores the parallels between two women who ate “forbidden fruit”.
CAST
Jessica Hood as Persephone
Pedro Chamale as Hades
Corina Akeson as Eve
directed by Genevieve Fleming
produced by unladylike co.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Based in Vancouver on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tseil-Waututh) peoples, Jessica Hood is a performer, producer, and playwright. She holds a BFA in theatre performance from Simon Fraser University. Selected performance credits include Her/Them (Pedro Chamale, Pull Fest VII); Acceleration (Ulla Laidlaw); The Girl Who Was Raised by Wolverine, (Deneh’Cho Thompson); Voices from Chernobyl (Aliya Griffin, The Troika Collective); and Olya the Child (Aliya Griffin, The Troika Collective). Jessica is the co-founder and co-artistic producer of unladylike co., a new theatre company that aims to make female-driven work. Jessica was a participant in PTC’s Block A playwriting program led by David Geary. Her play Oh, Romeo/ No, Romeo was selected for the NewMarket National Ten-Minute Play Festival. Her first full-length play bad eggs, was presented in a staged reading at rEvolver Festival in May 2019. Jessica is the Artist in Residence at Ruby Slippers Theatre for their 2019/20 season. jessicahoodartist.com
