Come Read A Play: The Breasts of Tiresias | SF

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Join foolsFURY Theater Company for a free play reading. Unlike other play readings where you sit and listen, at Testing 1-2-3 you get assigned a role (you can just listen too, if that’s what you prefer). It’s fun, experimental, and free!

This month we are reading The Breasts of Tiresias, here’s more about the play:

Theresa is tired of being a wife and potential mother, so she rips off her tits and goes to war, leaving her husband bereft and childless. He finds a way to create children (39 in one day!) without her and becomes a media sensation and object of lascivious attention from the police. Join Theresa (who becomes Tiresias – the hermaphrodite seer), the Husband, an animate news-stand and two clowns who may or may not be in Paris – or Zanzibar and may – or may not – be alive, as well as The People of Zanzibar.

First written in 1903, with an added prologue in 1917 for the first performance Les Mammelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias) by the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire is the first text in which the word ‘surrealist’ appears. It is a comedic drama about volition, population growth, colonialism and the bizarre nature of fame.

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