Take Back the Hood - Auckland Fringe

Take Back the Hood

“Grim, funny, brilliantly wicked… In fact I enjoy pretty well everything about Take Back the Hood.”
-Terry MacTavish, Theatreview

“Humorous, clever, and brave”
-Lori Leigh, Theatreview

Nominated for Best Solo Show, New Zealand Fringe Festival, 2013
Nominated for Best Visiting Production, Dunedin Theatre Awards, 2014

8pm, 20-23 Feb, 2015
The Basement, Auckland

As part of the Auckland Fringe Festival
Written and Performed by Deborah Eve Rea
Take Back the Hood: Little Red on Surviving Post-Wolf

“Being a fairy-tale heroine is really lonely, because no one gets your shit.” Red, Take Back the Hood
Take Back the Hood is a one-woman, modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in which Red explores, reclaims and liberates her “story”.

Little Red Riding Hood is all grown up and she’s pissed that she is the moral of a story used to control children. She’s spreading the truth of her tale to the masses. Are you ready to be liberated?

In a world of victim blaming, ACC’s mental injury proving, slut-walks and Twilight, how has our post-wolf Red been able to cope? Armed with a keyboard, a microphone and metaphor, Red pokes fun and stirs thought on New Zealand and Fairy-tale politics. Take Back the Hood is a comedy that is risky, rough and dirty but articulate and sophisticated and it’ll even smack you in the feels at points. Take Back the Hooduses a clever mix of comedy and fairy-tale to discuss victim-blame culture in New Zealand.

Take Back the Hood is solely created and performed by Deborah Eve Rea. Deborah Eve Rea was recently on the big screen in indie feature film Jake (nominated for four NZ Film Awards) and The Inheritance (International Film Festival). She appears regularly in Wellington theatre and on television. Deborah grew up in Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast before moving to Wellington at age 18 (11 years ago). She is looking forward to bringing her work home.

Take Back the Hood is inspired by performance art, poetry, Red Mole, Split Britches, Ana Mendieta and the legitimate Todd Akin. In 2012, Deborah Eve Rea received a grant from Asia NZ to attend the Magdalena, Women’s Theatre Festival where she met, worked with and watched leading international women in theatre such as Julia Varley, Keiin Yoshimura, Cristina Castrillo and Jill Greenhalgh. The experience has served as her biggest influence in creating this work.

In 2013, Take Back the Hood was performed in the New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington where it was nominated for Best Solo Show and Best marketing. The piece was originally staged as Deborah Eve Rea’s Toi Whakaari Go Solo project in 2012. In 2014 it was performed as part of the Dunedin Fringe Festival and in Palmerston North at The Dark Room and Wellington’s BATS Theatre.

Promo Clips/Teasers: http://www.youtube.com/user/debsrea

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