TRAD
Hannah Mitchell
at Loading Dock
January 22 - 23 at 7:30pm
January 24 at 3pm and 7:30pm
January 25 at 12pm and 5pm
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 Design, Promotional Photography: Suz Murray*
Sound Design, Marketing Design: Ethan Lindhout*
Producer: Celebration Barn (David Bruin, Executive Artistic Director)
Assistant Director: Meaghan Robichaud*
Lighting Design: Jacqueline Scaletta
Scenic/Props Design: Jonathan Schatzberg
*devising collaborators
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.