by Emily Kitchens

INKubator 2018-2019

In Yellow is a solo poem-play about a relationship between a young woman and a ceramic doll her grandmother made that she has just accidentally broken. It is about grief. It is about breaking out of generationally instilled feminine values. It is about the color yellow. It is all true.

In Yellow is deeply invested in the wrestle of being a queer woman from the South and dislocating from that space while attempting to not buy into two-dimensional polarizing narratives, wrangling with complexities and being willing to be unsolved about some generational truths. Creatively, and of theoretical aim, the piece is an experiment of poem and play for one voice, though the literal doll is an onstage character – or at least an anthropological artifact in and of the performance. And while this poem-play is deeply personal, it wants to engage a societal dialogue of postmodern feminism, as well as anarchism. Importantly, it is about (the) performance (of) form.

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For more information, contact Emily Kitchens at ekitche7@kennesaw.edu