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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Theater / Genius Ellen Forney's Poster for Kelleen Conway Blanchard's Upcoming "Kittens in a Cage"

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM

You may remember playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard (who wrote Hearts Are Monsters, which more people should have seen) as the author of "Vi and Me" in this year's queer issue—a short-and-sweet essay about what happened when her husband of seven years became her wife. If you haven't read it, please do. You will enjoy it.

She's got a play opening later this month at Annex called Kittens in a Cage—a riff, I take it, on exploitation films about ladies in prison. I just got ahold of the poster by Ellen Forney:

Ellen Forney

Forney is also one of this year's candidates for the Stranger Genius Award in the books category.

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Even more awesome than usual.

Posted by Rotten666 on July 12, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Umm... can I buy this poster online somewhere? Seriously - you could easily sell this as a high quality print.

Posted by dak7e on July 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM

But will it have the toe tapping moments that Second City (Chicago) had with "Co-ed Prison Sluts-The Musical"?

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on July 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM

@2:

I'm sure if you come see the show someone would be more than happy to sell you a poster.

@3:

Can't vouch for the toe-tapping, but there WILL be songs, written by Rick Miller from The Half Brothers.

More info: www.annextheatre.org.

Posted by COMTE

on July 12, 2012 at 11:13 AM

This poster sucks.
Maybe the play will be good (after all, she is close friends with someone at the Stranger (I mean "a genius"))
But, this looks seriously tossed off in an hour. Sorry. Not doing it for me.
The floating face on the right is just awful. Really poor effort. Must have been under deadline.
Thanks for posting!

Posted by That Kid From The Emperor's New Clothes on July 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM