Zoe Rose Spills Her Guts

RATING | PG-13

My   project is a one-woman show exploring the different, yet merging and   inseparable aspects of performing identity. Because of the intersecting   nature of identity, my performance will attempt to encapsulate the issues   that I, personally, am continually questioning, including gender, emotional,   romantic, and physical expression.

The basic structure of my performance will consist of four acts, each act   beginning with a different character reading from their diary. These   characters are personal to me, in that I see them as representing both the   most incredible aspects of my identity, and the most fatal of my flaws.   Jef’son opens the show as the overindulgent yet thoughtful frat bro. Brandi   is an East Londoner representing obsessive and delusional love. The third act   is a clowning performance symbolizing escapism and repression. The final   act’s character is me, Zoë Rose, as I read from my own diary entries spanning   age 8 to present day, interspersed with some anonymous prompt responses I   have received from previous renditions of this show. 

Even though these characters are so personal to me, my goal is for them to   have a relatability to different aspects of individuals in general; the   masculine and the feminine, the hilarious and the tragic, the romantic and   the heartbroken. This piece will ask the unsettling question of how these   pieces of each person can exist simultaneously, and if they can, how we can   actively and fully participate in the experience of our own identities.   

"Zoë Rose Spills Her Guts" is an immersive, participatory   theatrical experience. Each character poses a different question to the   audience, "When was the last time you overindulged to the point of self   destruction?", "When was the last time you let an obsession consume   you?", "When was the last time you laughed when you should have   cried?", "When was the last time you let yourself be   vulnerable?". After my performance I will ask audience members to respond   to these questions in the form of sho