Skewering Suburbia
Set in a 1950s suburban American home, The Neighbor's Grief Is Greener is a bold and funny satire of the role and duties of the so-called perfect housewife. The absurdist visual performance tells the story of a bored husband and his "Stepford Wife" whose lives are upended by a sexy femme fatale.
Directed and choreographed by Israel's Emanuella Amichai, the piece derives its humour from stereotypical images of marriage typically shown in magazines and on TV. It skewers the era's icons such as Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and I Love Lucy, questioning how far we've come in freeing ourselves from gendered expectations of domestic…
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