Faith and Dancing, a reading from the diary of a domestic terrorist
Performances happening on Friday 25th April and Saturday 26th April 2025. To book for Saturday, click here.
Written and performed by Lois Weaver
Faith and Dancing, a reading from the diary of a domestic terrorist is a solo performance written and performed by Lois Weaver in 1996. When Lois was growing up in southwest Virginia, she wanted to be a dancer, but she was also a Baptist and Baptists didn’t dance. Influenced by the hard femininity of mountain women, the rolling topography of the Blue Ridge Mountains and a fascination with earth science and meteorological phenomena, Lois maps her journey from a good girl in the 1950s to a transatlantic lesbian femme in the 1990s.
Faith and Dancing, reading from the diary of a domestic terrorist is a compilation of the Faith and Dancing text and more recent material taken from Lois’s explorations of global challenges such as climate change and aging that were originally seen through a poetics of the everyday but are now read in the urgent voice of today’s world crises.
In Faith and Dancing, a reading from the diary of a domestic terrorist, faith meets science, sermon meets striptease, and the domestic confronts global catastrophe.
Lois shares her desires to dance with Faith and moves from a girl desiring to be Miss America to a 75-year-old woman who misses America.
Lois Weaver is a writer, director and performer with the Split Britches Theatre Company and Professor Emerita of Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London…amongst other things.
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Credits
Written and performed by Lois Weaver
Cartography for the reading by Stormy Brandenberger
Sound design by Vivian Stoll
Painting by: Peggy Shaw
The Meeting House is the home of New Unity, a radically inclusive community of love and justice. This event is part of New Unity's new arts programme, Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to radical arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.
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