It’s not always that I have a laugh-out-loud Tuesday evening. But that’s exactly what the fearlessly hilarious women of The Second City’s “She The People: The Resistance Continues!” delivered this week at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC.
“She The People” is an intelligent improv and sketch comedy featuring a diverse but all-female cast that “proudly roasts the patriarchy”. Sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, ageism and a host of other sociopolitical problems are touched upon.
A doctor who needs a safe space when interacting with new parents who don’t want to vaccinate their baby. Valley-girl-like cheerleaders delivering brainwashed anti-consent and anti-abortion cheers to the horror of the coach who is male. He tells them their cheers are wrong but they reply that with enough money and power you do anything. When asked who told them that, of course, they reply- the president! A drill sergeant who wants to make sure that her charges fun girl’s night out doesn’t end with them falling victim to violence. Stay together. Don’t put your drink down. Don’t go home with a guy who says he is an entrepreneur. In short “don’t get murdered”. Sharp!
The show includes audience participation and as mentioned sketches that are cleverly improvised. In the gameshow You Gotta Fight, we the audience chose gun reform as the social issue we cared about. Next thing you know, we are leaving a message on the voicemail for Nancy Pelosi.
Overall, “She The People” is a funny introspection on the absurd situations women find themselves in.
Great night!
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.
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