SEASON THREE
​2015 - 2016

SWORDRAISER 10
​CURIOSITY KILT THE CATS

NYC SOUNDPAINTING FESTIVAL

DOUBLE FALSEHOOD

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Theik Smith Photography

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In a climate of victim blaming, rape apologizing and counter-suing,  Letter of Marque Theater's next show seeks to bring the causes of rape culture to the forefront. Double Falsehood, recently confirmed to have been penned almost entirely by William Shakespeare, is structured like one of his 5–act romantic comedies, right down to the distressed young lovers, foibled fathers and cogent royalty. But the show takes a parlous turn when one of the lovers rapes another and decides to abandon her in lieu of his best friend’s girlfriend. 

“This show speaks directly to what is happening right now in America. Rapists are protected by colleges, other institutions….it’s all rooted in a misogynist, violent culture in which women are kept down, made to feel like victims and, ultimately, raised in a country that both sub-consciously and blatantly tells them they are inferior to men. This has to change. We want this show to start the conversation that leads us to a new, better, equal way of living,” says LoM co-founder Scarlet Rivera.   
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Photo Credit: Theik Smith Photography
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Photo Credit: Theik Smith Photography
The ensemble-based company has teamed up with Dramaturg Lynde Rosario, a teaching fellow at Harvard University and co-producer of the Lady Plays podcast, to provide research and support to the project and facilitate talkbacks in the development of the piece.
"It is important to create a discourse about the willful negligence surrounding rape culture, victim shaming, male misogyny, and equal rights for women. Giving agency to women in order to counteract the stifling of their voices by identifying those traditions that placed women in subservient gender roles is a key element in Double Falsehood. By suppressing our inherent desire to recognize, identify, and lament we deprive ourselves of a necessary catharsis."

Lynde Rosario
Harvard University Teaching Fellow and Co-Producer of The Lady Plays Podcast

Click here to read more about the Double Falsehood Project >>

SWORDRAISER 9
​THE WITCHY THICKET JAMBOREE

In the NINTH incarnation of our popular performance party series, we bring SWORDRAISER IX: The Witchy Thicket Jamboree to you on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015. 

With a other-worldy, Tim-Burton-y, Woodland Warlock and Ethereal Aesthetic we invite you to dress up, get down and enjoy a night of Poker, Tarot, Butoh and more as we fundraise for our next phase of Double Falsehood Project. 

With special guests THE UME GROUP performing a Butoh-dance theater piece, G&S Resident Witch KATELAN R. FOISY (La Gitana) providing Tarot Readings, and The LOM Soundpainting Ensemble THE WITCHY THICKETS performing a LIve Composition, this is sure to be an eerily fun night you will not want to miss out on! 

Tickets are FREE with Advanced RSVP (Limit to 50)
Pay As You Wish (up to 3pm day of party)
Or $10 At The Door

Must RSVP for secret Gowanus, BK loft location
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