5 Stars! Writer: Katie Cappiello Director: Katie Cappiello, Meg McInerney Reviewer: Jamie Rosler Rape culture is a phrase that has become well-known, and widely accepted, only in recent years. Acknowledging the existence of that culture and the societal norms that feed it, is the first step in eradicating it entirely. SLUT: The Play explores rape […]
BY HILTON ALS In 2007, the theatre artists and activists Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney founded the Arts Effect All-Girl Theatre Company. There, the directors provided a forum for teen-age girls, where they could make socially relevant art. In 2012, a banner year for the Arts Effect, girls from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and […]
BY ALLISON MALONEY In 2012, Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney kept hearing the word “slut.” Surrounded by twenty teenage girls at The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company in New York, a group the two formed five years prior, the women began to dissect the word’s duality: “slut” seemed to be the barometer of female sexuality, the […]
BY EMILY GAWLAK How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to name out loud. It is not about convenient, easy-to-swallow truths. But it […]
BY WILLA TELLEKSON-FLASH Provoking messages intimidate audiences as soon as they step foot into the blackbox theater of Dixon Place. Screens glow with offensive tweets, like “Don’t ever be ashamed of who you are… Unless you a slut. Then be ashamed,” which demonstrate how people use degrading language colloquially. “SLUT” sets out to provoke conversation […]
By JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER On a bright winter Saturday earlier this year, more than 150 New York City high school students are gathered for a StopSlut Coalition meeting in the cavernous cafeteria of Hunter College on East 68th Street. The room is jumping with bright, puppyish energy, and the students are a gorgeous mishmash of New […]
By JESSICA BENNETT Monica Lewinsky was sitting in a Manhattan auditorium last month, watching teenage girls perform a play called “Slut.” Ms. Lewinsky was in blue jeans and a blazer, her hair pulled out of her face with a small clip. She was wiping away tears. In the scene, a young woman was seated in […]
By KATE GLASSMAN BENNETT With Hillary Clinton increasingly off the gala circuit as her presidential bid heats up, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has become Washington’s go-to guest-of-the-moment—at least for progressive causes. Gillibrand, whose own national ambitions are clear, will this week alone will be touted as a headliner or honoree at four high profile Washington powwows. […]
By DANICA LO Tonight, at the Warner Theatre, Slut: The Play will stage its Washington, D.C., premiere. The event will be followed by a panel discussion featuring guests including Glamour‘s editor-in-chief, Cindi Leive, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, House of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon, DC Rape Crisis Center (DCRCC) executive director Sherelle Hessell Gordon, and […]
If you are a Netflix junkie, you most definitely have recognized this next BUILD guest. American playwright and screenwriter, Beau Willimon is most notably known as the show runner and writer for the wildly popular Netflix show, “House of Cards.” However, Willimon isn’t here to talk season four or whether Claire will run for President, […]