Penis
envy
“I loved ‘Penis Envy,’”
…“vulnerable and truthful to her, funny and inviting.”
My greatest marker of success is when someone tells me after a show that I inspired them to keep making art. Too often mothers are sidelined by the demands of childcare during the years when they would be making mistakes and discoveries in their art. Then when they are relieved of caregiving and enter their prime they are rejected by an establishment that values youth and beauty over experience. Aileen Johnson, who reviewed my first show, Penis Envy, for DC Theater Arts said, "Being at the show was like spending the afternoon with a witty friend unafraid to say the things we are not supposed to say, your therapist, and your favorite political commentator all rolled into one." When the show came to Philadelphia, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer wrote of it in the Broad Street Review that "Penis Envy was funny, bold, poignant, sad, and transformative. Bondurant confirmed how women can internalize the misogyny of the culture that surrounds us, but she also described how we might free ourselves of that cultural bullshit. She dreamed of writing a great American novel but ended up finding her artistic voice as a storyteller."
“funny, bold,
poignant, sad,
and transformative.”
-BRoad Street Review
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George Washington (Penis) John Adams (Penis) Thomas Jefferson (Penis) James Madison (Penis) James Monroe (Penis) John Quincy Adams (Penis) Andrew Jackson (Penis) Martin Van Buren (Penis) William Henry Harrison (Penis) John Tyler (Penis) James K. Polk (Penis) Zachary Taylor (Penis) Millard Fillmore (Penis) Franklin Pierce (Penis) James Buchanan (Penis) Abraham Lincoln (Penis) Andrew Johnson (Penis) Ulysses S. Grant (Penis) Rutherford B. Hayes (Penis) James Garfield (Penis) Chester A. Arthur (Penis) Grover Cleveland (Penis) Benjamin Harrison (Penis) Grover Cleveland (Penis) William McKinley (Penis) Theodore Roosevelt (Penis) William Howard Taft (Penis) Woodrow Wilson (Penis) Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge (Penis) Herbert Hoover (Penis) Franklin D. Roosevelt (Penis) Harry S. Truman (Penis) Dwight D. Eisenhower (Penis) John F. Kennedy (Penis) Lyndon B. Johnson (Penis) Richard M. Nixon (Penis) Gerald R. Ford (Penis) James Carter (Penis) Ronald Reagan (Penis) George H. W. Bush (Penis) William J. Clinton (Penis) George W. Bush (Penis) Barack Obama (Penis) Donald J. Trump (Penis) Joe Biden (Penis)
In America, even a mid-life crisis is political.
To protect her daughter, born just seven days after Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, monologist, English professor, and writer Becky Bondurant must unearth the roots of her misogyny. In her first solo-show, Bondurant threads her coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Like a filthy and frank remix of What the Constitution Means to Me, Penis Envy is a story of awakening for the post-truth era.