WHY WE HAVE A BODY
About
Claire Chafee’s comedy “Why We Have a Body” is a lighthearted fable, centering on four women, about love in all its permutations. Lili is a private detective who specializes in investigating adulterous husbands yet falls in love with married woman Renee, whom she meets on an airplane.
Lili’s sister, Mary, fantasizes about being Joan of Arc and dreams of female empowerment, which she seeks to achieve by robbing convenience stores, until her life of crime catches up with her. The two sisters long for a close-knit family, but their mother, Eleanor, is too busy exploring exotic places to have time for maternal responsibilities.
REVIEWS
Tanna Frederick is a comic gem with some of the funniest physical comedy I have ever seen and a brilliant cast. Don’t miss it!
A whirl of magic realism, heady talk and quirky wit!
As a director, Tanna has done a great job of moving the play along and getting excellent performances out of her talented ensemble cast. She has also incorporated a five-piece jazz band into the play. The band stays onstage the entire time and interacts with the characters, mainly Mary, and it’s possible that the band is just in Mary’s head. Either way, it works very well to add depth and humor.
Tanna’s concept is just delicious… She is incredibly creative. She has a wonderful vision and every element in the show is incredibly inventive.
Funny, sexy and occasionally poignant, ‘Why We Have A Body’ will make you, like Lily and Renee, want to keep coming back for more.
First-time director Frederick gives the proceedings a respectably loopy staging, fit for a Berkeley coffeehouse… there’s something about a play that cleaves the Sapphic brain into three sections — “Memory, lust and hammering doubt” — while making audiences think about why they’re laughing.
Tanna Frederick is a comic gem with some of the funniest physical comedy I have ever seen and a brilliant cast. Don’t miss it!
A whirl of magic realism, heady talk and quirky wit!
As a director, Tanna has done a great job of moving the play along and getting excellent performances out of her talented ensemble cast. She has also incorporated a five-piece jazz band into the play. The band stays onstage the entire time and interacts with the characters, mainly Mary, and it’s possible that the band is just in Mary’s head. Either way, it works very well to add depth and humor.
Tanna’s concept is just delicious… She is incredibly creative. She has a wonderful vision and every element in the show is incredibly inventive.
Funny, sexy and occasionally poignant, ‘Why We Have A Body’ will make you, like Lily and Renee, want to keep coming back for more.
First-time director Frederick gives the proceedings a respectably loopy staging, fit for a Berkeley coffeehouse… there’s something about a play that cleaves the Sapphic brain into three sections — “Memory, lust and hammering doubt” — while making audiences think about why they’re laughing.
Tanna Frederick is a comic gem with some of the funniest physical comedy I have ever seen and a brilliant cast. Don’t miss it!
A whirl of magic realism, heady talk and quirky wit!
As a director, Tanna has done a great job of moving the play along and getting excellent performances out of her talented ensemble cast. She has also incorporated a five-piece jazz band into the play. The band stays onstage the entire time and interacts with the characters, mainly Mary, and it’s possible that the band is just in Mary’s head. Either way, it works very well to add depth and humor.
Tanna’s concept is just delicious… She is incredibly creative. She has a wonderful vision and every element in the show is incredibly inventive.
Funny, sexy and occasionally poignant, ‘Why We Have A Body’ will make you, like Lily and Renee, want to keep coming back for more.
First-time director Frederick gives the proceedings a respectably loopy staging, fit for a Berkeley coffeehouse… there’s something about a play that cleaves the Sapphic brain into three sections — “Memory, lust and hammering doubt” — while making audiences think about why they’re laughing.
