21:00-21:30, Thursday 17th September 2020
Music: Paul Evernden
Words: Sappho, Andrea Dworkin, and verbatim text
Devised in collaboration with: Sarah Dacey and Lucy Goddard
This event was performed exclusively in The Imaginary Festival 2020.
An opera for the Reddit generation. Built on found texts including fragments of Sappho, quotations by the late American Feminist and Academic Andrea Dworkin, and the unedited comment threads appearing on pornographic subreddits, Baby Girl, told through an array of different women’s voices, each of whom has played a part in shaping the overall narrative, is an unflinching look into masculine toxicity and how online pornography – the embodiment of the essential sexuality of male power – incubates and nurtures misogyny through its language and imagery.
Age range: 18+, explicit language and themes
Produced by Paul Evernden
Venue: hopefully* The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH.
*Read more here.
Get involved in this opera: If you’d like to hear your voice in your opera, please follow these links and record audio of yourself speaking any parts (short, long, or in-between) of the text. You are completely free to choose and discard as you see fit, and send all submissions to paulevernden@yahoo.com.
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Director and Composer: Paul Evernden
Devised in collaboration with: Sarah Dacey and Lucy Goddard
Further recorded contributions: [Maybe you!]