Direction, co-development, and co-design by Julie Rada

Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan Street, Denver, CO

May 13th — May 28th, 2022

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What does it mean to be a person – to have a body, and live in it – to make choices, and change over time – to tell the truth?

Pity+Fear is an intimate and darkly-comic one-woman tragedy, featuring two women and a guitar. Join Miriam & Josie as they grapple with queer identity, platonic realism, an audience, a chair, a mop bucket, the conflicting myths of Agraulos, and what to order for dinner.

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Written by Miriam Suzanne, with original music & lyrics by Josselyn Cool (Better Selfs, Teacup Gorilla, Jane/Eyre). Designed & developed with Julie Rada, Kenny Storms, Ben Meyer Reimer, and Erin Rollman.

Thanks to Buntport Theater for generously providing the venue.

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“Both Cool and Suzanne made the material which could have been perceived as academic or theoretical seem immediate with an obvious gentleness and awareness of how these subjects impacted their own lives in a very real and direct way . . . Pity+Fear (a travesty) was, beginning to end, incisive, insightful, sensitive and at keen times humorous without trivializing anyone’s struggles and challenges.” —Tom Murphy, Queen City Sounds and Art

Written and performed by Miriam Suzanne

Original music by Josselyn Cool

Direction, co-design and co-development by Julie Rada

Lighting design by Miriam Suzanne and Julie Rada

Sound design and properties by Kenny Storms

Production support by Ben Meyer Reimer and Erin Rollman

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Photography by Kenny Storms and Julie Rada

Postcard and poster design by Josselyn Cool and Miriam Suzanne