Theodora Skipitares: Projects

body of crime
1996

This is a history of women in prison. Another ambulatory performance, spectators travel through 10 environments in and around La MaMa's Annex Theatre. There were five performers and 50 puppets with a score by Barry Greenhut. Part 1 was presented in 1996 and Part 2 in 1999.
Based on criminological studies, I made a sideshow of late 19th-century criminal women
Scenes from the Salem witch trials In prison, the accused, Mary Warren, did deny her testimony. By the time se gave up her denials she was having fits so violent that her legs could not be uncrossed without breaking them. She seems to have been driven insane by the the refusal of the magistrates to accept her sanity.
Inmates sewing in a 19th-century American prison