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Episode 7: Cabaret's Poison Cookie with Sally Ollove
Seattle and Philadelphia-based dramaturg and director Sally Ollove joins us on the show to get into some of our good "why-"based questions abotu cabaret: Who's if for? What does it do that other forms of entertainment can't? Will anyone be taking their clothes off? She's the Associate Artistic Director of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and she knows the full depths of Philadelphia's experimental theatre scene. And, like me, she's a reluctant audience participant for any show that breaks the fourth wall, so I feel like I can trust her expertise on how to do these things right, ya know?
With previous experience as the in-house literary manager at The Arden Theatre and a University of Pennsylvania theatre education, Sally's got a full handle on the traditional theatre scene, but she found that was most useful to theatre's fringe forms. For the past couple of years, she's been describing her dramaturgical role as that of a "thought partner." (If her Uber driver asks her about her work, though, she just says she's a set designer so that there will be no follow-up questions.)
Special Guest: Sally Ollove.
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Links:
- In search of the Poison Cookie: John Jarboe explores the far fringes of queer cabaret — In search of the Poison Cookie: John Jarboe explores the far fringes of queer cabaret
- Know Your Beards (@beardedladiescabaret) • Instagram photos and videos — The Bearded Ladies are an experimental cabaret company tackling pop culture and identity with wit, sparkle & cardboard.
- Front Page | LMDA — Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas was founded in 1985 as the volunteer membership organization for the professions of literary management and dramaturgy.
- The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Shane Vogel — Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Normally tacit divisions were there made spectacularly public in the vibrant, but often fraught, relationship between performer and audience. The cabaret scene, Shane Vogel contends, also played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance by offering an alternative to the politics of sexual respectability and racial uplift that sought to dictate the proper subject matter for black arts and letters.
- The Wilma Theater — This is the theatre lobby where Sally's cabaret career began in earnest.
- Azuka Theatre — Telling the stories of outcasts and underdogs
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By Kate LangsdorfSeattle and Philadelphia-based dramaturg and director Sally Ollove joins us on the show to get into some of our good "why-"based questions abotu cabaret: Who's if for? What does it do that other forms of entertainment can't? Will anyone be taking their clothes off? She's the Associate Artistic Director of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and she knows the full depths of Philadelphia's experimental theatre scene. And, like me, she's a reluctant audience participant for any show that breaks the fourth wall, so I feel like I can trust her expertise on how to do these things right, ya know?
With previous experience as the in-house literary manager at The Arden Theatre and a University of Pennsylvania theatre education, Sally's got a full handle on the traditional theatre scene, but she found that was most useful to theatre's fringe forms. For the past couple of years, she's been describing her dramaturgical role as that of a "thought partner." (If her Uber driver asks her about her work, though, she just says she's a set designer so that there will be no follow-up questions.)
Special Guest: Sally Ollove.
Support The Context
Links:
- In search of the Poison Cookie: John Jarboe explores the far fringes of queer cabaret — In search of the Poison Cookie: John Jarboe explores the far fringes of queer cabaret
- Know Your Beards (@beardedladiescabaret) • Instagram photos and videos — The Bearded Ladies are an experimental cabaret company tackling pop culture and identity with wit, sparkle & cardboard.
- Front Page | LMDA — Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas was founded in 1985 as the volunteer membership organization for the professions of literary management and dramaturgy.
- The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Shane Vogel — Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Normally tacit divisions were there made spectacularly public in the vibrant, but often fraught, relationship between performer and audience. The cabaret scene, Shane Vogel contends, also played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance by offering an alternative to the politics of sexual respectability and racial uplift that sought to dictate the proper subject matter for black arts and letters.
- The Wilma Theater — This is the theatre lobby where Sally's cabaret career began in earnest.
- Azuka Theatre — Telling the stories of outcasts and underdogs