Body Awareness

Body Awareness

Theater J
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington

It’s Body Awareness Week at Shirley State College, Vermont, and Psychology professor Phyllis (Susan Lynskey) is determined to make it a thought-provoking and healing experience. However, she finds herself viscerally opposed to one of the week’s exhibitions: a controversial collection of female nude portraits taken by visiting photographer—and house guest—Frank Bonitatibus (Michael Kramer). Voicing her opposition, Phyllis cries, “The whole thing is like a joke now. I bring in a nutritionist, I bring in a race and gender panel, I bring in a f***ing domestic violence quilt, and then we have exploitative nude photographs of little girls hanging in the Student Union...”

Thru - Sep 23, 2012