Vagina Dentata
A Female Tragedy : With Teeth

Wickedly Wild
A flamboyant female fantasy of flesh and fornication. Three women and a corpse in a deadly deep-throat psycho-drama. Three women who share everything and nothing. A gunfight, a duel, a love story and Chekhov do battle in Volcano's extravagant, sweaty, schmaltzy drama.

Superly Sexy
Three Divas, Three Lovers, Three Sisters... The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. They are every woman's fantasy and every man's nightmare. They have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Furiosly Farcical
"This is not mime. This is not world theatre. This is not sick theatre. This is not dance-drama. This is not old drama. This is not new drama. This is not mixed-media, site-specific, interactive, naturalistic, voyeuristic, futuristic, aphoristic..."

Vagina Dentata is a tragic farce fought out on the twin landscapes of modernity and postmodernity. We still live in a modern age, but it is at a time when ideology has ceased to be a primary political factor in our lives (this is not to say that ideology does not function in much more subtle ways). There is a new kind of cynicism, even nihilism, abroad. It may be that this is no bad thing. The beautiful dreams of modernity harboured a number of dangerous and totalising fantasies. There might be more to a kitsch culture of indifference than at first meets the eye. It is perhaps the playfulness of the postmodern that we need to embrace.

The world has become a complicated place. Theatre needs to reflect this fact rather than consoling us with bewitching pictures of ancient simplicity and commonplace certitude. This is not to say that it is inadmissable to look backwards like Chekhov - in search of origins or essences - and forwards in an attempt to discover new horizons and possibilities. On the contrary, such efforts are essential. Nonetheless this piece parodies some of our strategies for survival. And, balanced between tragedy and farce, it suggests that in whatever direction we travel, a world in which women have teeth - and use them - might be a far better place than anything we have managed so far.

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