IT GIRL splays open our obsession with the Next Big Thing when it comes to women in the entertainment industry. Looking through the lens of the original “It Girl” Clara Bow and her tumultuous raise and fall in the Silent Film Industry, this original piece becomes the actress’ nightmare for contemporary women. A fantasia of silent film, clown, tap, ballroom, boxing, vintage gags, and innovative storytelling, IT GIRL pits an actress in a dance to the death against ShowBiz to find out if anyone can really have It all?
$15/advance, $20/door
For more information, visit: https://www.brennageffers.com/it-girl-tour
Created by Brenna Geffers, Amanda Schoonover, and Anthony Crosby from Philadelphia, PA
IT GIRL
“This dazzlingly smart, heartbreaking, genre-defying theater piece about the great Clara Bow (and much more) should be seen by every lover of theater and film.” -Philly Magazine
“It is a physically and emotionally demanding performance that not only displays her command of the emotive style of silent acting of the ‘20s, but also captures the exhilaration, stress, loneliness, and pain felt by the woman behind the scenes with poignancy and empathy.” - Phindie Independent Arts Coverage
“The It Girl is an engrossing study of the machinery of show business and sexuality through the prism of one fascinating life… Schoonover captures not only Bow’s love of performance but also her desperate sadness and willingness to please.” DC Metro
“Geffers, Schoonover, and Crosby are onto something real in examining both our hunger for the new - especially when that new thing is a woman - and, on the flip side, what fuels the desire to be that thing…”- Philadelphia Inquirer
“The performance holds us entranced, particularly Schoonover’s depiction of electric shock therapy and a final apache dance of abuse with her stage partner, Anthony Crosby.” -Broad Street Review