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the concept

The Miniature Housewife is a solo performance /spectacle exploring the enduring cultural fantasy of the homemaker. In a deliciously surreal landscape, a tiny woman whose apron labels her “Mini” tries to create pretty, precise, and practical meals in a kitchen full of enormous recipes and implements. Battling all kinds of size and shape problems, “Mini” confronts her self worth, her physical capacity and her emotional power. This piece admits a real desire to be the perfect little woman in an overwhelming and unattainable environment. Mini reminds us that women are still being hypnotized by images of pure, elaborate, breathtaking feats of efficiency and grace in a world full of increasing economic turmoil, enduring misogyny and absurd social laws. She lets us fantasize about the cleanest, coziest, neatest, most comfortable and alluring home we can imagine. But this home is not simply the door we open and close everyday, it is the space we move in, the cultural sphere we try to hold around ourselves. It is the shield of sanity and pleasure against the violence and unknowns of our real homes and gardens.