Bianca Collins, Artillery Magazine full review Paul Outlaw’s boldness blew me away as he inhabited the character of a white, wealthy, conservative woman who wakes up to find herself trapped in a black man’s body … We see Outlaw’s character move through the transformation of a woman who orgasms from the pleasure of the power she holds to a fearful and confused woman trapped in a man’s body, rich with the ‘stench of blackness’ …The power of BBC’s exploration of xenophobia, black virility, and gender confusion left me speechless and stunned.” “This challenging work impacted me the most of all the works in the festival this year.
Caught in Jonathan Snipes’ landscape of live, spatialized sound, the identities within the protagonist’s mind and body expand and contract throughout the play.
As originally conceived for this 25-minute work-in-progress at REDCAT's New Original Works (NOW) Festival, all design elements stem from the central image of a single Black male body in an empty space delineated by Chu-hsuan Chang’s stark lighting design. Vocabularies of xenophobia, racism, misogyny and sexual violence are evoked in this nightmare of imprisonment and imperiled Blackness in America. At that moment he was transformed from a man into a woman for the next seven years.” -From Book 3 of Ovid’s Metamorphōseōn librī (Books of Transformations), 8 ADīBC (Big Black Cockroach) is an experimental theater work inspired by current events and the classic tales of transformation by Kafka and Ovid: Greta, a white woman somewhere in America, awakens to find herself transformed into something even more unsettling than a “monstrous vermin” (Kafka)-Gregory, a Black man.Īs in Die Verwandlung, the identity of the BBC’s protagonist morphs over the course of the play between the emerging Gregory and Greta, who is doubly imprisoned-in a Black body and by her husband, who has locked her in their safe room. When he smacked them with a stick, they separated and slithered away. “Strolling in a verdant grove, Tiresias saw two serpents coupling. “One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams to find that he had been transformed into a monstrous vermin.” -First sentence of Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis), 1915
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