Emerson Stage Presents: Brazen

By Masha Obolensky & Melia Bensussen
Directed by Melia Bensussen
February 1-4, 2018

Brazen revolves around a mother and daughter – Cameron, the mother, is a brilliant photographer who uses fairy tales as a framework and ever-changing daughter as a model. Miranda, her daughter, in order to escape the claustrophobia of her upbringing, joins a funky/grunge feminist girls’ band and finds herself in trouble in part due to her mother’s work. Brazen adapts the French Bluebeard folktale, wherein a powerful man destroys a series of women as a backdrop to explore questions of gender, objectification, intimacy, differentiation, and “what price art”.