Jane Comfort has New York premiere of "Beauty" at LaMaMa

May 17 - May 20 2012

LaMaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre
New York, NY

Jane Comfort‘s (2000 Performing Arts) new work, Beauty, is a gimlet-eyed look at the extremes women take to achieve impossible beauty. Jane Comfort’s wildly versatile company members don false eyelashes, sequins and Spanx to compete in a nightly Barbie Beauty Contest judged by random audience members. Ditching Barbie drag, they examine the many beauty procedures available to us lesser creatures: liposuction, botox, plastic surgeries, etc., and those that aren’t: Photoshop, the digital magic that retouches every model we see in magazines. Beauty invites men and women of all ages to consider how they perceive and project notions of female beauty in both benign and malevolent ways, consciously and subconsciously. Comfort was awarded a Guggenheim to create this wickedly funny and poignant work, which is performed in repertory with her Bessie Award-winning Underground River.


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