BECHDEL FEST 9: NEXT LEVEL
(top, l to r) Jennifer Blackmer*, Leah Roth Barsanti, Brittney Brown* and E.M. Davis*
(bottom, l to r) August Forman*, Ben F. Locke*, Karissa Murrell Myers and Brian James Polak.
Performances run August 28th - 31st
@ The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee
The award-winning annual festival returns! Now in its ninth iteration, BECHDEL FEST features an ensemble of female-identifying, nonbinary, and trans artists performing hilarious and heartfelt new short plays, all of which pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test, a rubric created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel that requires a piece of entertainment to features non-cismale characters talking about something other than men. Written, directed, and performed by some of the city's most outstanding storefront artists, this year's slate of stories center around characters finally on the edge of growing up, glowing up, and making big decisions that ultimately take them to - you guessed it - the next level.