How to Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla Review
How to Defend Yourself*
Jan 24 – February 23, 2020
Co-Earth Premiere with Actors Theatre of Louisville
Synopsis
How to Defend Yourself circles effectually seven higher students who gather for a DIY cocky-defence force workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They larn how to "non exist a victim", how to use their bodies as weapons, how to fend off attackers. The form of self-defense becomes a channel for their rage, trauma, confusion, anxiety, and desire. Challenged to determine what they desire and how to inquire for information technology, the students must ultimately face the insidious ways rape culture steals one's body and sense of belonging. Developed as role of Victory Gardens 2018 Ignition Festival of New Plays and the winner of the 2019 Yale Drama Series Prize,How to Defend Yourself is funny, raw and brutally honest – a triumph from playwright Liliana Padilla. The production will be directed pastMarti Lyons (Cambodian Stone Ring,Native Gardens Victory Gardens, Witch Writers Theatre).
CONTENT WARNING
Please be brash, How To Defend Yourself deals with themes of sexual violence and rape culture. Specific topics include concrete violence, explicit language, and intense discussions of sex and sexual assault. Additionally, strobe lights and simulated smoking devices (vape pens) are used during the production.
If you have any questions about content, age-appropriateness or stage furnishings that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please contact the Box Office at 773.871.3000.
Press
"★★★ ½ empowering and optimistic, thrillingly kinetic and grounded in truth."
Chicago Tribune
"★★★ ½ Powerful and smart"
Chicago Sun-Times
"A game-changer…a stiff and important work"
Picks in Six
"Powerful, fascinating, and entertaining…demands to be seen right now"
Broadway Earth
"Liliana Padilla'southward fantabulous, high octane, honor-winning comic drama…will long exist remembered"
Chicago Theatre Review
"Blitzes the imagination with realism, stupor, and truth"
Chicago At present
"A powerhouse ensemble and a thought-provoking, fast-paced production make for an unforgettable night of theater."
–Pic This Post
"Directed with pinpoint precision and plenty of startling wit by Marti Lyons"
-Chicago Reader
"Taut and powerful, raucously entertaining…Lyons keeps the rapid-fire dialogue tight and pulls no punches with the heavy themes that underscore the play."
–Buzz News
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Creative Team
Liliana Padilla
Playwright
Marti Lyons
Manager
Cast
Isa Arciniegas
Diana Rodriguez
Anna Crivelli
Brandi
Jayson Lee
Eggo
Ariana Mahallati
Mojdeh
Ryan McBride
Andy
Andrea San Miguel
Nikki
Netta Walker
Kara
Product
Yu Shibagaki
Scenic Designer
Christine Pascual
Costume Designer
Paul Toben
Lighting Designer
Thomas Dixon
Sound Designer
Bren Coombs
Props Designer
Steph Paul
Move Director
Matt Hawkins
Fight Managing director
Rachel Flesher
Intimacy Director
Kanomé Jones
Casting & Line Producer
Erica L. Sandvig
Director of Production
Alison McLeod
Production Phase Manager
Public Programs
Post-Show Conversation
After All performances of How to Defend Yourself (Unless otherwise noted)
Join us for one of our intimate mail service-show conversations led past members from the Victory Gardens community, reflect on what you've seen, and share your response.
Mail service-Show Chat
Th, January 30 • ix:15 pm
Bring together How to Defend Yourself playwright Liliana Padilla for a special post-show chat near bringing this piercing piece of theatre to life.
Pre-Show Celebration
Saturday, Feb 1 • 5:30 pm
Victory Gardens, in partnership with Northwestern Center for Sensation, Response, and Education, A Long Walk Habitation, and Global Girls Inc., is creating space to uplift Blackness women and survivors of gender-based violence. Bring together us for gratis performances and conversations to celebrate survival and sisterhood.
Sunday, February ii • i:xxx pm (Victory Gardens Rehearsal Hall)
In How to Defend Yourself, seven students come together to navigate complicated questions of consent, want, and bureau. What would our relationships look like if we were in better affect with our own bodies and desires? Your torso is always talking to yous. How can you learn to listen? Join us in this workshop centered on recognizing your ain physical responses and honoring your body. Movement article of clothing is welcome but non required.
Post-Testify Conversation
Sunday, Feb 9 • iv:45pm
In How to Defend Yourself, a group of students searches for strategies with which to face sexual violence on campus. As global attention intensifies on the college sexual assault epidemic, how take student bodies responded? What tools do students have on and off campus to accost sexual violence? How can students merits a vox in setting schoolhouse policies? Join united states of america every bit we speak with college students about how to advocate for cultural and institutional alter on American campuses.
Mail service-Testify Conversation
Sunday, February xvi • four:45pm
In How to Defend Yourself, two fraternity brothers join a women's self-defence form every bit a gesture of solidarity, calculation assail prevention to the concerns in their "man boxes." Sexual violence affects people of all genders, yet is traditionally seen as a women'due south issue. How tin men support the struggle without de-centering female voices? Join u.s. to acquire how to exist a better ally in the fight against gender-based violence.
Mail-Show Performance
Thursday, Feb twenty • ix:15pm
How to Defend Yourself depicts young adults grappling with the ways that sexism and gender-based violence have shaped their concept of sexual relationships. In the wake of the #metoo move, how have artists addressed ideas similar sexuality, consent, and misogyny through their work? Bring together usa in a commemoration of work by female Chicago artists dedicated to speaking truth to power.
Community Resources
Resilience
Life Span
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Northwest Centre Confronting Sexual Assault
1000 Waves
Northwestern University's Heart for Awareness, Resource, and Pedagogy (Care)
A Long Walk Home
Global Girls Inc.
Women's Leadership and Resources Middle at University of Illinois at Chicago
Sponsors
2019/20 Flavour Sponsors
• Anonymous
• The Ream Foundation
• Ralla Klepak Trust for Performing Arts
• The Kadens Family Foundation
• Helen Zell
• The Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation
• Sue E. Wallace
• Bill & Orli Staley Foundation
• George A. Joseph
• The Harvey L. Miller Supporting Foundation
Flavor Sponsor Partners
• Conant Family unit Foundation
• Rick & Dawn Gray
• Marcelle McVay & Dennis Zacek
• Jeffrey Rappin & Penny Brown
• Jane M. Saks, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Major Production Sponsor
• National Endowment for the Arts
Production Sponsors
• Betty Bradshaw
• Lois Morrison & Justin Daab
Playwright's Society Sponsors
• David & Loren Chernoff
• Chicago Latino Network
• Janice Feinberg, Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
• Roxanne Saylor & Coco Soodek, The Katherine Soodek Foundation
Educational activity Sponsors
Source: https://victorygardens.org/event/how-to-defend-yourself/
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