Do You Feel Me?

Do You Feel Me? is a musical dramedy about the experience of the womanbody in the patriarchal capitalist society into which she was born and in which she is asked to live. It is a synthesis of new contemporary text, excerpts from translated and adapted ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, live music, interactive digital technologies, human bodies (performers, spectators) and performance art aesthetics. Could the feminine question that Daphne Brooks listens to in her heroines' Liner Notes for the Revolution (2021) be finally felt? “Do you feel me?” Do we feel Antigone's love? Do we feel Cassandra's need to be heard? Do we feel Nina Simone's cry for equity? Do we feel the author's immigrant positionality in the current US sociopolitical landscape? By centering these questions, this project creates a ritualistic multisensory performance space that critiques heteronormative capitalist structures and gives the subjugated womanbody the opportunity to name her existence in her own terms.