Chicken

Pei Pei Barth Wu

Dec 11 & 12 at PAGEANT

Performed by

Henry Adeson

Justine Florence

Angelina Hoffman

Gwendolyn Knapp

Weston Priest

Music by

Jack Whitescarver

Original Text by

Henry Adeson

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Additional Thanks

Matt Norman for drums

Josie de Anda for the feather hands

Photo by Martin Garcia

Rehearsal

Photo by Kayhl Cooper

The chicken woman who spits when she speaks is a spastic producer of cultural forms and ornaments. Her propensity, as evidenced by the chicken ballet in La Fille Mal Gardée and the Papageno couple in Die Zauberflöte, is towards genre, vaudeville, and pantomime—forms in which gesture overrides free-thinking independent consciousness in festive humiliation. –– Henry Adeson