Timeline:

DOORS: 6:30 PM

TRAD: 7:00 PM

DENTATA: 8:30 PM

Age Limit: This event is All Ages

ID: Valid ID required for Entry

Limited Late Seating: Due to the architecture of our space, the entrance is next to the stage and it is disruptive to the performer to enter late. We will seat you if there is an opener but once the headliner starts, you may be allowed to sit in the lobby but will not be allowed to enter. Please know this is for the best experience for the artist. No refunds for late entry.

Start Time: Performances will begin no later than 15 minutes after stated show time.

Refund Policy: All sales are final. No Refunds.

ADA Accessibility: The Rockwell is partially ADA Accessible with an elevator and restrooms in saloon wide enough for wheelchair use.

TRAD is a theatrical tear-down of the modern phenomenon of trad—or traditional—wives and the associated Christian nationalist arsenal of beliefs, which also indulges our collective yearning for fantasies of escape. This trad wife is eternally rotund with her husband’s seed: What could possibly shake the ripeness of her faith in this idyllic existence?!

POV: Your husband is on his way home from work. You’ve got seven buns on the counter and one more in the oven, all baked from scratch, waiting for him. The peaches are bursting on the branches of your homestead’s orchard, while below ground, something is nearing completion. You hear capital H-I-M whisper through the prairie grasses a song that melts your obstinate will, beckoning you to enter a wonderland of reliance and submission.

DENTATA:
New work from an award-winning idiot. Join Beth Anne (a woman!), a middle-aged beauty queen (almost!), who has spent her life shape shifting into what she thinks others want, only to realize she doesn't know herself at all.

She looks for her reflection in Medusa, the Sirens of The Odyssey, and the Weird Sisters of Macbeth. These misunderstood women (women!) pull her through the wreckage of her past, forcing her to confront the stories she’s been told about what it means to be beautiful, desirable, good, and worthy.

In a wild, theatrical unraveling, Beth Anne is ripped open and reborn as something powerful, ferocious, and entirely her own.

Directed by Jess Lazar (Funny or Die, Hulu) and co-birthed by SITI Company's Lucy Smith. Written and starring award-winning Julia VanderVeen.

****.5 "A genuinely out-of-this-world, next-level performer...Miss this at your peril." -The Reviews Hub

"Hypnotic trembling rage with a wink. A war cry dressed in a clown's costume." - SceneMag UK

**** "VanderVeen is simply amazing." - EatMoreArtVegas

Shortlisted Cabaret Award Brighton