TRAD
Hannah Mitchell
TRAD is a theatrical tear-down of the modern phenomenon of trad—or traditional—wives and the associated Christian conservative arsenal of beliefs, which also indulges in our collective yearning for fantasies of escape. This trad wife is eternally pregnant with her husband’s seed: What could possibly shake the ripeness of her faith in this idyllic existence?!
Creator and Performer: Hannah Mitchell
Video Designer: Suz Murray
Sound Designer: Ethan Lindhout
Producer: Celebration Barn (David Bruin, Executive Artistic Director)
Assistant Director: Meaghan Robichaud
Marketing Design: Ethan Lindhout
Promotional Photography: Suz Murray
Poster Design: Ethan Lindout
Poster Photographer: Suz Murray
Poster Performer: Hannah Mitchell
Find them: @razmus @ethanlindhout @suzmurrayy @celebrationbarntheater
POV: Your husband is on his way home from work. You’ve got seven buns on the counter and one more in the oven, all baked from scratch, waiting for him. The peaches are bursting on the branch of your homestead’s orchard, while below ground your modest 50,000 sq/ft bunker is nearing completion. You hear capital H-I-M whisper through the prairie grasses a song that melts your obstinate will, beckoning you to enter a wonderland of reliance and submission.