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Waiting for the Kick

  • Meese Auditorium, SOU Art Building 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard Ashland, OR, 97520 (map)

Oscar Wilde’s Salome is remade into a darkly comedic fever dream of a rock opera written and composed by the Ilima Considine of The Sexbots, reset in an after hours club full of off-duty strippers, bartenders, and mountains of cocaine.  This is a gay, feminist retelling of Salome - retold not as a story of a man in power led astray by a teenage temptress, but of a young girl caught in an impossible situation in a world where patriarchy forces women to objectify both themselves and others in order to survive. And yet, in spite of everything, young queer folk discover themselves and each other - irrepressible as dandelions growing out of a sidewalk. 

Content Warnings: grooming, language, substance use

Special thanks to Cloud Stokely

Ilima Considine is the voice behind the international art pop experiment The Sexbots and the writer/director/composer for the film musical "Waiting for the Kick". 


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