What does it mean to be a person – to have a body, and live in it – to make choices, and change over time – to tell the truth?
Pity+Fear is an intimate and darkly-comic one-woman tragedy, featuring two women and a guitar. Join Miriam & Josie as they grapple with queer identity, platonic realism, an audience, a chair, a mop bucket, the conflicting myths of Agraulos, and what to order for dinner.
Written by Miriam Suzanne (see our source material if you're interested), with original music & lyrics by Josselyn Cool (Better Selfs, Teacup Gorilla, Jane/Eyre). Directed by Julie Rada, in collaboration with Kenny Storms, Ben Raginmar, and Erin Rollman.
Thanks to Buntport Theater for generously providing the venue.
Production Photos
![Miriam reaching dramatically across herself, a ladder in the background](/img/NQXOMfLYus-640.jpeg)
![Miriam holds a crumpled paper with a drawing of a serpent child](/img/VpKnOC8-m8-640.jpeg)
![Miriam holding crumpled paper to herself, with Josie in the background](/img/RvsvFXWAfq-640.jpeg)
![Miriam lit from below, with her hands above her head, dropping pages](/img/TwYGuell-7-640.jpeg)
![Miriam looks at her wet hands](/img/n52vMLH84D-640.jpeg)
![Miriam kneeling, and writing on a roll of gaff tape](/img/1hW6n6unVq-640.jpeg)
![Miriam hunched, with her hand across her belly](/img/ENg3awN6E6-640.jpeg)
![Miriam reaches out in an empty hug gesture](/img/7fdZ0RsOWH-640.jpeg)
![Josie sings and plays guitar, with Miriam blurry in the back on a ladden](/img/uEZlFmksXb-640.jpeg)
![Miriam in blurred movement with stacks of paper and a mop bucket, Josie's legs in focus behind her](/img/8eR79XK75t-640.jpeg)
![Miriam leans over to wash her hands in a glowing yellow mop bucket](/img/kFAwmb9zLJ-640.jpeg)
![Miriam lit from below, brushing something from her leg](/img/nw4io9A-h0-640.jpeg)
![Miriam at the top of a ladder with papers and a microphone](/img/19X3njP9Ar-640.jpeg)
![Josie at a mic, sings and plays guitar](/img/K2VTlFQ5lJ-640.jpeg)