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]]> http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2010/08/27/episode-1-guerrilla-girls-on-tour/feed/ 3 16:21 On the first episode of GAB's new podcast, we are joined by several members of the Guerrilla Girls on Tour! But who is this touring ... On the first episode of GAB's new podcast, we are joined by several members of the Guerrilla Girls on Tour! But who is this touring theatre group really? What are their aims and aspirations? And did Justin Bieber really write their theme song? Listen on to find out! Full transcript after the jump! [Guerilla Girls on Tour Theme Music] Kyle Bachan: Welcome to the very first Gender Across Borders podcast. My name is Kyle Bachan. I’m a senior editor here at Gender Across Borders. Colleen Hodgetts: And I’m Colleen Hodgetts. I’m another senior editor at Gender Across Borders. KB: Today we’re joined by the Guerilla Girls on Tour. We have Aphra Behn, Maya Deren, and Julia Child on the line. Before we start things off, could you tell us a little bit about Guerilla Girls on Tour? Guerilla Girls on Tour: Yeah, sure. In 2001, the Guerilla Girls, an organization that was founded in 1985, decided to split into three new and independent groups and members of Guerilla Girls who were theater artists.... We tour around, we put on plays and performances, we’ve tried to develop our own sense of feminist theater that incorporates the audience into our shows. Our shows are interactive, and we also carry on the tradition of Guerilla Girls by making them humorous and using humor as a weapon to shed light on women’s issues. KB: Ok, so, my first question is how can theater be used to alter or influence stereotypes about gender? GGOT: Theater is such a little fantasy playground, I feel like with a simple prop or a costume, especially one as un-gendered as a gorilla mask, can sort of leave people up to their own devices in terms of deciding what people are demographically in terms of gender and race and class and all of that good stuff. I mean clearly, our name is the Guerilla Girls, so people are assuming that we as actual performers are women. But we play a smorgasbord of gendered characters on stage. That’s one way. And those are the only ways. [Laughter] CH: That leads to a question of mine that I had, actually. You said that the audience makes assumptions about your gender, but what assumptions, if any, do you make about your audiences, and how much of a role does that take in your performance? GGOT: Well, we always hope for an audience of idiots. [Laughter] I’m just kidding. No, we don’t assume anything about our audience, but we do often perform for university audiences, so we expect a healthy portion of eighteen- to twenty one-year-old folks. But we’ve performed at a lot of commuter universities too, and community colleges where there’s a lot more diversity of students, and then we always have a big group of local feminists that come, or people that are just there to be antagonists, and these are trends that come up a lot, so we assume that all of these groups will be represented, but people have a surprisingly wide array of value systems that we are delighted and horrified by wherever we go. Yeah, we always hope that our audiences have a sense of humor, of course, but we don’t assume that they will. [Music] GGOT: Do you believe in equal pay for equal work? Men’s voices: Yes. GGOT:  Gentlemen, because of your answer to that question, I need to tell you that you might be feminists. Me too! You know what, I don’t want to alarm you, but you might be feminists too. KB: Ok, on that note then, going around to universities and young people, what advice would you have for, I guess, aspiring young playwrights or actors who wish to break the mold of traditional theater? GGOT: Well, one of the things they can start using is video. And they can really start interacting with their audiences through using technology. Whether they create a flash mob and record it, and use that as a back drop for their piece, or whether or not they’re streaming their performance live, whether or not they use the interactivity of live performance as stream that you have people interacting wit Podcast GAB Editorial Team no no