Deer Woman
Poster artwork by Michael Avolio
a solo theatre performance
Next Showing…
TBA
due to Coronavirus Outbreak
Deer Woman is a new original solo performance work written and performed by Megan Rippey, developed and directed by Valerie Hager.
A note from Megan —
Deer Woman is my story of being an exotic dancer who is looking to reconcile my love of stripping with the primal rage of feeling disempowered by the incremental violations that occur nightly in the club. Based on my real-life events as well as a fantastical vision I had in 2012, the “Deer Woman” is what happens when I allow the rage to rise to the surface.
After a sold-out, extended run at the Solo Creation Festival at Son of Semele, Valerie and I went back to work to refine the show and also add approximately 10 minutes of new material. The newest 45 minute version of the show was selected for the 2020 Solofest at the Whitefire Theatre, which was a one-night affair and so much fun! I played to a packed house and I was very proud of my performance. Deer Woman was also selected as one of the Solofest 2020 Best of the Fest!
Next on the docket was due to be the 2020 Hollywood Fringe Festival, but the covid crisis has disrupted this plan. We’ll see how HFF 2020 adapts… for now, there is talk about postponing the festival until the Fall. I’m curious to see what happens. With an open mind, I cherish the extra time to further develop this piece!
Rave reviews from Solofest 2020 at the Whitefire Theatre:
“Megan Rippey is all woman... brilliant, beautiful, powerful, contradictory and brave... so exquisitely good, such an amazing presence, her characters full of life and humor and quirk. ”
“...fun and hauntingly honest... ”
“Strange and unusual and totally, fearlessly real.”
“The most impressive dimension of the show is how she boldly challenges us to consider the inner lives of the actual, three-dimensional people who entertain us from the stage, all of whom have their own unique story.”
“as she dances, performing incredibly athletic and frankly gorgeous feats of agility, she beautifully dominates us.”
“Megan Rippey is utterly believable. The dance, the story, the fearless sexuality and the beautiful Deer Woman... I barely breathed the entire show. I found it so inspiring and intriguing and warmly dangerous... I absolutely loved it. The last few minutes are a gift worth waiting for... we meet Deer Woman and she is everything we hoped...”
“...a fascinating story of contrasts... Rippey’s production is captivating, imbued with a wide range of emotions.”
Photo by Christopher Jewell Lanier