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Collision Theory's
The Hungry Girls: A Fairy Tale
based on the story by Patricia Eakins

Production Photos by Su Polo

Synchronicity Space, New York, 1997
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The production pictured below, The Hungry Girls: A Fairy Tale, is based on the story "The Hungry Girls" by Patricia Eakins, the title story of the Cadmus Editions collection, copyright © 1988 Patricia Eakins. The play was conceived and adapted by Stephanie Gilman and Kristin Tanzer and produced by Collision Theory (formerly Girl & Co.) at Synchronicity Space in New York City in August 1997; the production was revived for the New York International Fringe Festival in August 1998.

There are twenty-one pictures in this exhibition, averaging a bit under 20 kilobytes, so it may take two or three minutes to download them all. (We hope you'll think they're worth it.)
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On a farm outside La Bouchoire. outside La Bouchoire. "On a farm
outside
La Bouchoire.
The year: 1846.
In the midst
of plenty,
it may be
difficult
for you
to imagine..."
"I ate
the thatch
of my roof.
Then,
I ate dirt.
You
understand
I was
starving.
I was also
pregnant."		 I ate the thatch of my roof.
Imaginez! "Imaginez!
A human
baby
born with
teeth."
"She ought
to stop
that child
eating dirt!"		 She ought to stop that child, eating dirt!
Our Jeanne is not beautiful. "Our
Jeanne
is not
beautiful.
Nor is
she bright.
She cannot
speak.
I throw up
my hands.
Mere
de Dieu!"
"Diagnosis?
Diagnosis..."		 Diagnosis?
First Jeanne "First
Jeanne,
then
her many
daughters."
"Jeanne's
daughters
were dirty
and reckless.
They grew
even larger
and rounder
than Jeanne
had been."		 Jeanne's daughters
"The girls
worked
hard
and did not
fight
among
themselves
as long
as each
was
allowed
her field..."
"Now we must
only wait
until they
give birth;
then we
can put
our hands in
their bellies
and take out
the coins and
whatever else
they have
stuffed inside.
We will want
for nothing..."		 We will want for nothing
Sabot girl "Every
family
now has
a Sabot girl
for a
daughter-
in-law.
It's true
they don't
wear shoes,
but my,
what a
handsome
dowry!"
"Who knew
these girls
were thieving
gluttons?"		 thieving gluttons
grabbed our cow "Our girls
grabbed
our cow
and tore it
to pieces
as if it were
a chicken."
"This girl
might swallow
me up like a
sugared
almond,
and I would
appear
no bigger
in her mouth
than a grain
of millet
in the mouth
of an ass."		 swallow me
Non Compos Mentis. "Non
Compos
Mentis."
"These girls
are visitors
from the
underworld.
There are
devils
among us."		 devils among us
Imaginez! "Imaginez!
Thieving,
gluttonous
granddaughters.
These girls
are wild and furtive,
larger than
any Hungry Girl before,
and hungrier.
It is said they eat
the bodies of the dead,
beginning with
their own mothers."
"The families
were unable
to live
with the girls
in their homes.
Once again,
Robert and I,
and the farm,
were overrun
by Hungry
Girls."		 by Hungry Girls
Vaginae Largositae... "Vaginae
Largositae...
Starvitus
Devourimus...
Non Compos
Mentis."
"...With
nothing to do
but grow
madder
and madder."		 grow madder
Food run out "Food runs out,
wherever one is.
Money is spent
and men disappear,
along with
teapots and platters.
Can one
really blame
the Hungry Girls,
who are
many feet
beneath the grass?"
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Finis...
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Su Polo pict

Su Polo specializes in available-light photography and has taken many pictures of performers, including Sloan Wainwright, Susan McKeown, and Carol Elliott.
Su is also a writer, graphic artist, and singer-songwriter. She has recently published her first book, Turning Stones, a collection of poems and stories, and her work appears in the August 1998 issue of Caprice Magazine. She is a host of the Saturn Series poetry reading in NYC and is the editor-publisher of its periodical, Saturn.
Su is putting together a one-woman show that will incorporate her poems, songs, and stories, which she has been performing at clubs in the New York City area. Contact Su Polo by e-mail at supolo@interport.net for photography of live music and theatrical perfomances.
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We hope you've enjoyed the exhibition. All involved would welcome your comments, and invite you to send them by e-mail.

And please visit other parts of Patricia Eakins's Web site.
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