UNIBEAUTY & her Wicked Daughters
UCSC - 2023
"What kind of people enchant a legal fiction? Who benefits? How has the rhetoric of personal rights and equality been used to enact and enhance these enchantments--and what can these increasingly enchanted fictions be used to do? Who will die because of this? Who will become rich? This in-progress work is an effort to theatricalize and make playable the slippery abstraction known as corporate personhood and the civil rights movements that produced a new species of enchanted beings." - Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (playwright)
staff
Playwright: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Director: Rebecca Wear
Assistant Director & Choreographer: Madi Lang-Ree
Scenic & Costume Designer: Pamela Rodriguez-Montero
Lighting & Projection Designer: David Lee Cuthbert
Sound Designer: Cassidy Carlson
Assistant Sound Designer: Kairo Chin
Props Master: Emily Tao
Toy Theatre Designer: Stephen Migdal
Dragon Designer: Elliot White
Fight Choreographer: Noah Lucé
Stage Managers: Maddy Khachadoorian & Sabrina Fogel
Photography: Steve DiBartolomeo
the FDA dragon
designed & constructed in collaboration with Elliot White.
the dragon's head took 2 actors to operate. two actors operated the head; the first held onto a horizontal bar which was attached to the lower jaw. this allowed the operator to open and close the mouth. the second actor held onto a vertical pole at the back of the dragon's head. the sides of the face, mouth, and nostrils were cut out to ensure the actors could see their surroundings while inside
the dragon's body took 3 actors to operate. two actors controlled the spine/body and the third controlled the tail
we tried to use materials that we already had access to. we chose to use cardboard & paper mache because it was light, but sturdy
props
the constitution
pitchforks
other
