SCENIC DESIGN for an HONORS THESIS at
EMORY UNIVERSITY in ATLANTA, GA at the BURLINGTON ROAD BUILDING BLACK BOX in 2019
AND GOD FORBID IT SHOULD BE SO
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ROZ SULLIVAN-LOVETT
And God Forbid It Should Be So was a play written and performed by Roz Sullivan-Lovett. The script is an exploration and attempted dismantling of the given gendered narrative of two fairy tales, “The Story of Mr. Fox” and “The Oxford Student.” The ambiguity at play in these stories as well as their nature as folktales remind us that they are fiction, and their fiction offers the reader to escape from either of them, a detachment from the narrative of women’s oppression. Therefore, And God Forbid It Should Be So is a project built around questioning the modern individual’s relationship to story and to our own identities in narrative, and more specifically in how bisexual gender-nonconforming women interact with internalized homophobia and misogyny in the construction of the self.
EMORY UNIVERSITY in ATLANTA, GA at the BURLINGTON ROAD BUILDING BLACK BOX in 2019
AND GOD FORBID IT SHOULD BE SO
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ROZ SULLIVAN-LOVETT
And God Forbid It Should Be So was a play written and performed by Roz Sullivan-Lovett. The script is an exploration and attempted dismantling of the given gendered narrative of two fairy tales, “The Story of Mr. Fox” and “The Oxford Student.” The ambiguity at play in these stories as well as their nature as folktales remind us that they are fiction, and their fiction offers the reader to escape from either of them, a detachment from the narrative of women’s oppression. Therefore, And God Forbid It Should Be So is a project built around questioning the modern individual’s relationship to story and to our own identities in narrative, and more specifically in how bisexual gender-nonconforming women interact with internalized homophobia and misogyny in the construction of the self.
