How iRan: Three Plays for iPod
“How iRan: Three Plays for iPod forces the mind to push beyond the limitations of space – a library is not a library just through bricks and mortar. A library is a space with institutional conventions and rules (and books!!), and in a piece like this, these rules slip and allow for a transcendence. The temples of silence becomes pure temples of story: temples of information through the arts. The subversion echoes through the piece in rebellions, acts of passion that end well, and in a struggle to triumph over oppression.”
–My Contention: Engagements in a Post Essay Culture
The Damage is Done
“Rita’s performance of The Damage is Done is a powerful, raw exploration of how a terrible past can linger and be just as stale in the present, how a revolutionary spirit can travel right down a mother’s placenta and into her unborn child. With its well-timed video clips, Rita’s bold new fusion of story-telling with the visual and aural … takes static, fixed words off the page and lets them hover in the air, bitter-sweet and moving.”
Be a Man
“Even as a lesbian woman, Whenham always found the topic of transgender uncomfortable and confusing. So when Be A Man writer and producer Rita Bozi asked her to play the role of Tommy, a woman living as a man, Whenham was hesitant, but decided to challenge her views and dive head-first into the role – something she now credits with changing her life..”
Testimonials
“I wanted to say, but was unable, last night how amazing your dancing was. It turned what was a fascinating, challenging, heart-wrenching and insightful piece into a highly professional and impressive performance. Not only have you helped me along my all-too-slow and stumbling journey of self-awareness, but you gave us the pleasure of some superb interpretive dance! I hope “The Damage is Done” travels far and wide and touches as many people as possible.”
– Pippa Lawson, Whitehorse
“Simply by finding that place of joy within ourselves we could em- body that despite whatever happens in childhood and how difficult your history could have been, people can transcend it, people can go from it, people can let go of it.”
“Creative collaboration is natural for Ken and Rita. They worked together in theatre before they dated and Rita explained that a professional work ethic is built into their relationship.She hired Ken to be the dramaturge for [her novel] Uprising before sending the draft to her mentor Dennis Bock. They decided to set up an office on their upstairs front porch because the weather was too lovely in June to stay indoors. They spent their evenings watching Ramsay walk by from their “treehouse office” while they revised the novel.”
© 2014 by PRODUCTIVE OBSESSION. Co-Artistic Conspirators Rita Bozi & Ken Cameron