Don’t believe the hype about Mr. Rochester, this story is much more than one romantic plot-point. “The novel has a defiant attitude from page one of the preface, refusing to be set aside” says Miriam Suzanne, who plays in the band and narrates as an older Jane, looking-back on the action. “Brontë and Jane don’t just have a story, they have an agenda.” Julie Rada plays Brontë on stage, as she and Jane create the story together — or despite each other. Denver actress and BETC company member, Lindsey Pierce, plays Jane in-the-action, with Joan Bruemmer-Holden, company member with Boulder’s The Catamounts, providing all the additional characters, from Rochester to several women “friends” that Jane also considers living with in the novel.
Grapefruit Lab is the combined vision and multimedia experience of Julie Rada, Kenny Storms, and Miriam Suzanne. We strive for a more just and humane world through hybrid performance, embracing the queerness in human experience, where collaborative art is an ongoing practice of radical community and collective healing. We are humans first, and performance is an embodied process for imagining, exploring, and deepening our humanity. “We want to make art without assumptions,” Suzanne says, “Art that humanizes, and entertains, and challenges, and brings you into conversation.” (Stephi Wild)
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