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What Tammy Needs to Know
Photograph Spark Design
lois weaver / split britches

Theatre, Performance, Interactive

SIZE OF COMPANY
1–3 on road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Director/Performer/Collaborator
Lois Weaver

Writer/Performer/Collaborator
Peggy Shaw

ARTISTIC POLICY
Split Britches Company creates new forms by exploiting old conventions. It borrows from classical texts and popular myths but its true sources are the details of everyday life. The work is personal, bordering on the private. It relies on moments rather than plot, relationships rather than story. It is about a community of outsiders, queers, eccentrics – feminist because it encourages the imaginative potential in everyone, and lesbian because it takes the presence of a lesbian on stage as a given.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'Their performances are sites of clarity, inspiration and community.' Village Voice

'While the play feels as fresh as ever, its performers are undeniably more mature – and the play’s the better for it.' Time Out New York (Dress Suits to Hire)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
What Tammy Needs to Know Written and performed by Lois Weaver with music by Paul Clark. A performance installation that incorporates autobiographical text, original music and audience. (60 mins, 1 on stage, 1 optional crew, flexible space requirements)

Diary of a Domestic Terrorist Written and performed by Lois Weaver, a lecture performance that examines performance strategies that use private details as a means of public resistance. (40–50 mins, 1 on stage, flexible space requirements)

Dress Suits to Hire Written by Holly Hughes in collaboration with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver. Poetic and satirical send-up of heterosexual romance literature, as well as a meditation on lesbian desires. A theatrical celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Split Britches Company. (70 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road, contains strong language)

It's a Small House and We Lived in it Always Created in collaboration with Clod Ensemble, directed by Suzy Willson with music by Paul Clark, performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Movement piece in which two explorers lay claim to the same territory. (45 mins, 2 on stage, 1 crew optional)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Hands-On Performance Workshop; Performing Rights Workshops; Long Table on Performance and Human Rights; Tammy’s Walkabouts; and after show discussions and talks.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Greece (On the Scent in collaboration with Curious), Finland, Poland (What Tammy Needs to Know/Diary of a Domestic Terrorist)
2005 Australia, Canada, China (On the Scent)2003 Brazil (On the Scent), Taiwan (It’s A Small House and We Lived in it Always workshops and translation performance of Dress Suits to Hire)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Throughout 2007.