How to be a Doll Opens March 13th!

Mir Productions presents
How to be a Doll
Directed by Genevieve Gearheart
Text by Alissa Riccardelli

Featuring Carissa Cordes, Annie Harrison, Cindy Kawasaki, Ouida Maedel, Lucy McRae, Sharla Meese, Erinina Marie Ness and Aubrey Snowden

Original Music by Joseph Genden
Designed by Monica Faye Carter, Elizabeth Nielsen and E.I. Read
Produced by Julianne Just

Thursday, March 13 through Sunday, March 16 at 8:00 pm,
Wednesday, March 19 through Saturday, March 22nd at 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 23 at 2:00 pm

Access Theater – Gallery
380 Broadway, 4th floor (at White Street)
Tickets are $15.00, visit www.smarttix.com for reservations, or call 212-868-4444.


CRITICS ARE INVITED on or after March 13


Mir Productions' new piece, "How to be a Doll," is a mixture of dance, movement, and spoken word poetry created in collaboration with eight female performers from all walks of life. It is centered on the issues of young women, particularly issues of self. It speaks of women with muffled voices, of their rich inner lives and their silence on the outside. It is about the struggle between what one should be and what she wants to be and the failure to find the balance, reacting against her mother and the fear of reacting at all.

This piece addresses the questions: is a person what she projects, or what she is internally? If she is aware of herself and her perception, why is it so frightening to share it? Some search for definition through love, to allow others to sculpt them so they can put that fear into the hands of someone else. Others search through sex, looking for definition. This is a piece about fear: the fear of being alone, and above that, the fear of love - fearing good love and instead turning to bad love for safety's sake. Although the desire exists in everyone to step outside of one's surroundings, the fear of walking can be suffocating.