2008 Woodie Awards
Stripped and Teased: Scandelous Stories with Subversive Subplots
Kim Caldwell
Issue date: 11/8/06 Section: Entertainment
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This one woman "stand-up story-telling" theatre show bursts the boundries of ordinary thinking by challenging the audience's concepts of gender and gender roles via passionate poems about strippers, lesbians and drag queens.
"Stripped and Teased" won the national GLBT Theatre Festival's Best Improvisional/Spoken Word award.
"Kimberly Dark offered an insightful and amusing blend of stories, poetry and feminist monologues in 'Stripped and Teased: Scandalous Stories with Subversive Subplots.' ... (Her show) invited people to laugh and think," noted the Columbus Dispatch.
"Dark's love poems are candid ... and helped earn her an enthusiastic standing ovation from an audience of several hundred," reported the San Diego Union Tribune.
Dark, whom has a master's degree, utilizes her 10-year sociologist background to facilitate a lively discussion among the audience in hopes to connect social issues to their everyday lives.
Frequent themes have been based around gender, violence against women, poverty and education.
Dark leaves the audience in bewilderment as to how a one-woman show can be so intimate, thought provoking, hilarious and entertaining all at the same time.
Each performance is customized for the audience and venue, through intimate audience interaction.
Dark's performances have delighted and incited audiences across the United States and Europe.
More information regarding Dark is available online at her Web site, www.kimberlydark.com.
For all general inquiries and ticket information please contact the Associated Students Productions and the Student Union at (707) 664-2382, or visit them online at sonoma.edu/as/asp.