"(A) giddily exuberant confection that manages to conjure a distinctively eccentric theatrical world(.)"
- Jason Zinoman, NEW YORK TIMES (read the full review)
"Satter's Half Straddle company is launching a particularly coordinated goal-line drive to a new feminist form."
- Helen Shaw, TIME OUT NEW YORK (read the full review)
A co-production of The Bushwick Starr
Performed at the Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY, February 10-26, 2011
Half Straddle artistic director Tina Satter claims the traditionally male construct of athletics and team sports, as embodied in American football, and reframes it for a female paradigm in the company's new piece. Mixing the specific language, aesthetics and dynamics of football with Tina's incisive and tweaked reinterpretation of high school-speak, Half Straddle creates the world of the Pony Palace where girls totally play football in full pads, cheerleaders still have all the power, and everyone lives for something that might not really matter.
Running time: 80 minutes.
Tina Satter / Writer, Director
Casey Yorke / Assistant Director
Chris Giarmo + Bobby McElver / Music
William Burke / Football Choreography
Zack Tinkelman / Lighting
Andreea Mincic / Set
Michael De Angeles / Costume Design
Starring / Moe Angelos, Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Nikki Calonge, Emily Emily Davis, Erin Markey, Glennis McMurray, Kourtney Rutherford, Julia Sirna-Frest
The Pony Palace Marching Band is Justin Dayhoff, Jon Lijoi, Bobby McElver, Mary Rasmussen