Drama. Women's Studies. From playwright and poet Shannon Bramer comes TRAPSONGS, a collection of three dark comedies that navigate the realm of the surreal and absurd. In "Monarita," an intimate friendship between Mona, a frazzled new mother, and Rita, her beloved, estranged friend, is explored. Their interaction is a dance--part ballet, part mud fight. In "The Collectors," Hanna Parson is harassed by three ghastly collection agents who force her to confront her debt and isolation as she struggles to create meaningful art in her dishevelled apartment. And in the tragicomedy "The Hungriest Woman in the World," Aimee, a former artist, invites her preoccupied, workaholic husband, Robert, to the theatre to see a play about a sad octopus. His refusal sends her on a dark and playful journey into the topsy-turvy world of theatre itself.
TRAPSONGS is by turns comedic, grotesque, and profane, but is all the while a tender exploration of the human condition in all its hilarious and humbling glory. Although each of these plays is a discrete creation, they contain and hold each other like a matryoshka doll; all of the main characters are trapped within the song of their own lives.
"Bramer's writing for the stage is magical. It slips the bounds of the real while being so real. What happens to the characters happens to us; we become them."--Karen Connelly
"Bramer's plays are remarkably intricate and wonderfully bizarre. The dreamlike vision and witty, absurdist language create beautiful, theatrical paintings."--Rouvan Silogix
"Shannon's work is always original and insightful. It is also very funny. After reading 'Monarita' once I knew I would produce it and I did, just a year later."--Ruth Lawrence
"Shannon Bramer's writing makes my heart ache and my sides split with laughter. Her characters are so earnest and peculiar and through their endearing absurdity we see a very real, very private part of ourselves."--Claren Grosz
"Bramer's work is littered with subtexts...fossils to unearth; the optics of beauty, sex work, mental health, and mothering are all here."--Lyndsay Kirkham
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