Produced by The Bearded Ladies Cabaret with Emily Schreiner
Rolling World Premiere with Woolly Mammoth, CulturalDC, & La MaMa ETC
From a commission by Works & Process at the Guggenheim

A true story of gender cannibalism set to music.

Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” This was a lot for John to swallow! In this musical shrine to the consumed twin, named Rose, John welcomes guests into a feast of gender through song, storytelling, and a full plate of wordplay. Featuring all original music written in collaboration with Emily Bate, Daniel de Jesús, Pax Ressler, and Be Steadwell.

-

"Rose: You Are Who You Eat" was developed during the fall of 2020 in a Works & Process bubble residency at Mount Tremper Arts, and immediately before the performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on June 20, 2021, in a Works & Process bubble residency at Bethany Arts Community, made possible by the Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Photo: Erick Munari