June 24 – 26, 1993
At the Ontological Theater
at St. Mark's Church
New York City

Description:
Two women slowly apply makeup with their backs to the audience. A depressing dirge plays. They turn around and approach the audience, revealing a grotesque version of what is expected of women in today's society. Over the next hour, we see them dance with poles, segment and bisect their bodies with white cards, and contort themselves and pout for an unseen photographer, in a methodical series of choreographed vignettes that expose the voyeurs we have all become. Garish smirks alternate with confusion and ennui; vapid posturing leads to exhaustion in a bizarre maze of images and catch-phrases that gradually but quite literally overtake the stage. I Hate Women bludgeons its audience with an onslaught of full-frontal dances performed to music ranging from Tommy Dorsey and Sinatra to bluegrass and house.

Produced by
Hangdog Theater

Written, directed, choreographed and
scored by
Robert Cucuzza

Developed by
Jennifer Woodward, Caroline Wood, and Robert Cucuzza

Starring
Jennifer Woodward
Caroline Wood
Jon Patrick Walker

Technical Director
Justin McCarthy
Sound Operator
Jon Patrick Walker
Light Board Operator
Sally Eberhardt
Video Artist
Rocio Goff
Lighting Designer
Delano Lopez
Lighting Assistant
Sophie Hayes
Pan Engineer
Kosta Potamianos
Photographer
Luis Ribellas