FROZEN FLUID by
An Antarctic Gender Non-Binary Creation Myth
Three scientists - enduring the vast tundra, close quarters, and three hundred beached whales on a melting glacier - are faced with questions of gender, biology, identity, climate change, and faith.
TAY, a scientist specializing in Phytoplankton, is a genderfluid person trying to quietly organize and understand their place on the ice...
Three scientists - enduring the vast tundra, close quarters, and three hundred beached whales on a melting glacier - are faced with questions of gender, biology, identity, climate change, and faith.
TAY, a scientist specializing in Phytoplankton, is a genderfluid person trying to quietly organize and understand their place on the ice...
An Antarctic Gender Non-Binary Creation Myth
Three scientists - enduring the vast tundra, close quarters, and three hundred beached whales on a melting glacier - are faced with questions of gender, biology, identity, climate change, and faith.
TAY, a scientist specializing in Phytoplankton, is a genderfluid person trying to quietly organize and understand their place on the ice while their presence cracks every foundation. HERMAN, a scientist specializing in Glacial Disintegration, builds an arc to get the team off of the melting glacier while struggling to keep his relationships afloat. TERRA, a whale biologist, is overwhelmed by the deconstruction of her faith and her identity as the world theatens to swallows her whole.
A play in process - I am interested in developing this work in length and depth as it relates to the deconstruction of gender and the representation of the sciences. This is the first draft of FROZEN FLUID.
As I and others around me explore the construction and performance of gender and identity I followed these characters out onto the ice and watched it crack and melt beneath us. I want to point more toward the (de)construction and performance and of gender, of mythos and religion, of family and parenthood and community, of ecology and biology - in bodies and genders of all kinds.
Sometimes I want to scrub the play completely of gender because I don't understand it, but feel it push back - and I think that's what the play has to do. I want to explore the formal dramaturgical structures of the Old Testament, of children's games, of more than just binary gender and a nonbinary femme position. I think the world of the play as its shown itself thus far brings us to the edge of these explorations - there's more to be found.
I want an unmaking of Eden, an unnaming of the animals, where all the ice in the world has to melt to start over. We're born into this - but also, can we identify as not something without something? Questions for the New Flood for a New Age of the Post-Gender Family in a Post-Glacial world.
Three scientists - enduring the vast tundra, close quarters, and three hundred beached whales on a melting glacier - are faced with questions of gender, biology, identity, climate change, and faith.
TAY, a scientist specializing in Phytoplankton, is a genderfluid person trying to quietly organize and understand their place on the ice while their presence cracks every foundation. HERMAN, a scientist specializing in Glacial Disintegration, builds an arc to get the team off of the melting glacier while struggling to keep his relationships afloat. TERRA, a whale biologist, is overwhelmed by the deconstruction of her faith and her identity as the world theatens to swallows her whole.
A play in process - I am interested in developing this work in length and depth as it relates to the deconstruction of gender and the representation of the sciences. This is the first draft of FROZEN FLUID.
As I and others around me explore the construction and performance of gender and identity I followed these characters out onto the ice and watched it crack and melt beneath us. I want to point more toward the (de)construction and performance and of gender, of mythos and religion, of family and parenthood and community, of ecology and biology - in bodies and genders of all kinds.
Sometimes I want to scrub the play completely of gender because I don't understand it, but feel it push back - and I think that's what the play has to do. I want to explore the formal dramaturgical structures of the Old Testament, of children's games, of more than just binary gender and a nonbinary femme position. I think the world of the play as its shown itself thus far brings us to the edge of these explorations - there's more to be found.
I want an unmaking of Eden, an unnaming of the animals, where all the ice in the world has to melt to start over. We're born into this - but also, can we identify as not something without something? Questions for the New Flood for a New Age of the Post-Gender Family in a Post-Glacial world.