Big Girls Don’t Cry: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)
by The Happiest Medium on February 16, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Company: Crowning Monkey Productions
Written by: Rachelle Elie
Fringe veteran and winner of the 2008 Ottawa Fringe Festival Outstanding Comedy Award, Rachelle Elie returns with a dazzling new show about Haitian fathers, Kenyan night clubs, and aging Barbies.
Show Times:
- Fri 2/24 @ 8:00pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 6:30pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 6:30pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 6:30pm
- Sun 3/3 @ 6:30pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 2:00pm
Answers by Rachelle Elie
(Writer / Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Rachelle: INTRO… I had just returned from Kenya and found the experience left me feeling overwhelmed with tears of joy and sadness. When girls grow up, have kids, and get married, and pursue a satisfying carreer…or not get married, not have kids but pursue a career, we’re expected to get our emotions together and we’re not supposed to cry. The reality is that we do cry and we want to cry. We also live in a society where people shut themselves off from their emotions and my job is to delve deeply into feelings and share them with the world.
