December 12 – 14, 2013 – Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX
Amelia Weatherbeaten Caroline Reck
Eleanor Dangerbottom Cami Alys
Sound by K. Eliot Haynes Lighting by Natalie George Costumes provided by Pam Friday Scenic Design by Caroline Reck
Additionally Featuring Connor Hopkins, Noel Gaulin and Jay Byrd
Missionary Position: Pleasure Journeys for the Intrepid Lady Explorer is a feminist comedy trilogy featuring Amelia Weatherbeaten (Caroline Reck) and Eleanor Dangerbottom (Cami Alys) as Victorian-era Lady Explorers and Spokeswomen for Hartman’s Hygenic Towellettes for Ladies, the first commercially available menstrual products for women.
They travel around the world at the turn of the 19th century, hocking their products and lecturing hilariously on topics of interest to the Ladies Society for Ladies, Where Ladies Share Knowledge with Ladies. (That’s all of you.)
September 10 – 26, 2016 – Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX
Amelia Weatherbeaten Caroline Reck
Eleanor Dangerbottom Cami Alys
Grand Dames of the Society for Learned Ladies Jay Byrd and Rudy Ramirez
Sound by K. Eliot Haynes Lighting by Sadie Langenkamp Costumes by Pam Friday Scenic Design by Caroline Reck
Missionary Position: Pleasure Journeys for the Intrepid Lady Explorer is a feminist comedy trilogy featuring Amelia Weatherbeaten (Caroline Reck) and Eleanor Dangerbottom (Cami Alys) as Victorian-era Lady Explorers and Spokeswomen for Hartman’s Hygenic Towellettes for Ladies, the first commercially available menstrual products for women.
They travel around the world at the turn of the 19th century, hocking their products and lecturing hilariously on topics of interest to the Ladies Society for Ladies, Where Ladies Share Knowledge with Ladies. (That’s all of you.)
June 3 – 18, 2017 – Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX
Amelia Weatherbeaten Caroline Reck
Eleanor Dangerbottom Cami Alys
Amelia Bloomer Courtney Hopkin
Annie Kopchovsky Indigo Rael
Charlotte Smith Sonnet Blanton
The Hostess of the Society for Ladies Jay Byrd
Sound by Taylor Juarez and K. Eliot Haynes Lighting by Sadie Langenkamp Costumes by Pam Friday and Monica Pasut Scenic by Caroline Reck
The topic for Session Three is Riding your Bicycle to Freedom and Other Lofty Apogee. This original show features characters from history that were part of the bicycle movement in the later 19th century.
Amelia Bloomer (Courtney Hopkin) popularized the wearing of trousers for women, Annie Kopchovsky (Indigo Rael) rode her bicycle around the world during a time when few women traveled alone at all, and Charlotte Smith (Sonnet Blanton) was a suffragette and the feisty president of the Women’s Rescue League, which advocated against the riding of bicycles by women, for fear it would lead them down the slippery slope to prostitution.
