The Sleepover is a work of devised theatre (currently in development) inspired by the feminist theologies and social history of American prophetesses featured in the book, And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy by Adrian Shirk.
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The Sleepover asks: “How did our most harmful beliefs form, and how can we change those beliefs now?” by inviting audiences into a meta-narrative 7th grade sleepover at the end of the 20th century.
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Cary Hooper shared an exploration of traditional Japanese Rakugo storytelling adapted to a Western ghost story idiom, an improvisational monologue blending an array of characters and creatures in the waning light of the woods.
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Each guest arrives at the sleepover with a distinct foundational belief of some kind–whether theological, cultural, political, familial–that she no longer wants to have, and which throughout the night, she struggles to reinterpret.
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Thanks to Kindling Arts Festival in Nashville, TN for hosting our first workshop performance of The Sleepover!
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The Sleepover is a work of devised theatre (currently in development) inspired by the feminist theologies and social history of American prophetesses featured in the book, And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy by Adrian Shirk.
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9.png)
The Sleepover asks: “How did our most harmful beliefs form, and how can we change those beliefs now?” by inviting audiences into a meta-narrative 7th grade sleepover at the end of the 20th century.
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/7-scaled.jpeg)
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/5-scaled.jpeg)
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/11-scaled.jpeg)
Each guest arrives at the sleepover with a distinct foundational belief of some kind–whether theological, cultural, political, familial–that she no longer wants to have, and which throughout the night, she struggles to reinterpret.
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/6.jpeg)
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8-scaled.jpeg)
Thanks to Kindling Arts Festival in Nashville, TN for hosting our first workshop performance of The Sleepover!
![](https://jointhepartynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/3.jpeg)