I gET SO
EMOTIONAL BABY
Unruly female emotion was once attributed to a deviant womb wandering through the body.
Our flesh is cast as monstrous in its capacity to feel.
‘Testimonial’ and ‘attest’ both derive directly from ‘testes’ – the gateway to truth is gendered –
horror is a woman who knows.
Pop, misogynistic horror tropes, Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, the sexist history of our health system, soft porn, Barbara Creed’s ‘Monstrous Feminine’. I Get So Emotional Baby looks at the ways in which women’s ownership of their own emotional and bodily realities is systemically threatened.
Basement Theatre, Auckland
October 2022
“Through the combined impact of dance and design, I Get So Emotional Baby enables multiple truths to coexist,
|just as they do in our reality… This is a production in the hands of artists who know precisely what they’re doing.
It’s focused and formidable; well-made and compelling.” – Tate Fountain, Bad Apple, Full Review Here
“I Get So Emotional Baby is a glorious mixture of whimsy, anger, sadness, humour, tragedy and heart.”
– Andrew Whiteside, Full Review Here
“I Get So Emotional Baby is a complex and engaging investigation of the expression of emotions, of inhabiting a female body, and of inhabiting a hostile world. Jessie McCall and her team of collaborators have created a work which emphatically proves that the body can express what the mouth cannot.”
– Irene Corbett, Theatrescenes Full Review Here