Venue:
Northcote Town Hall
Gertrude Stein is fabulous, amazing, extraordinary not to mention the fact she spent her entire creative and personal life kicking arse. She lived without explanation or apology; whether she was being celebrated as the queen of Avant garde expressionism, alluding persecution in Nazi occupied Paris or just living quietly with her Boston wife Alice B Toklas. How many Jewish, American Lesbians (living in the 20th century) can attest to that? So what better icon to be celebrated during the Midsumma festival? Stein’s works are performed all too infrequently and the opportunity to see them recreated by forty of Melbourne’s hottest female talent including visionary directors Cheyney Caddy and Yvonne Virsik makes this the must see event of the season.