T & T Productions Closes MAMI, WHERE’D MY O GO?, 7/21

Is a woman's inability to org*sm a joke or a death sentence? Can a Mother's death poison your sexual roots? Where would YOU go for sexual healing?

In this fantastically feminine, seductively southern solo tour-de-force, Fowler takes the audience deep into the swamps of her true-life experience. It's hot and bothered with a touch of the supernatural like HBO's True Blood, yet it has all the humor and heart-warming matriarchal strength of Steel Magnolias. Mami is the first outside production to which Lifeline Theatre has ever opened its doors. This summer Fowler reveals how life can be in the garden of good and evil, in the dirty South, in Savannah!

In Fowler's autobiographical one-woman show, Caroline goes home to the sultry and fetid backwaters of Southern Georgia. She seeks a way to surmount a stymied sexuality. In a final desperate dive, she invokes the powers of African Goddess Mami Wata as she relives sexual exploration and exploitation entwined with her Mother's death.

Fowler's journey as Caroline is stand-up autobiography come alive. She has performed throughout the Southeast; notable performances include her one-woman performance in A Woman Alone by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Roberta in Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Laura in The Glass Menagerie. Savannah Morning News hails Fowler as having "elegant simplicity, even as the emotions run wild," "subtle but steely strength," and "impeccable comic timing." Fowler holds an MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Victoria (toy) DeIorio (Director) has directed Sunday on the Rocks with Second Sex at Bailiwick and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs at Lifeline Theatre. As well as directing, she has an accomplished career as a composer and sound designer. Victoria's music and design has been heard Off-Broadway in The Bluest Eye at The Duke Theatre and Ophelia at the NYC Fringe Fest at The Connelly. In Chicago she has designed productions with The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Northlight, Writers', Remy Bumppo, Next, Rivendell and Lifeline Theatre. She has been nominated for 9 Joseph Jefferson Awards, winning 5, and she has received 2 After Dark Awards. Victoria is a founding member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, an ensemble member with Lifeline Theatre, and an Artistic Associate with The Next Theatre. She is the head of Sound Design at The Theatre School of DePaul University.

Mami, Where'd My O Go? runs through July 21; every Sunday-Wednesday, 8 p.m. at Lifeline Theatre.Tickets are $18. Discounts available for students and seniors. . Opening Night/Press Night is Wednesday, June 23 at 8 p.m. Preview performances for June 21-22 are $10. For tickets, go to www.lifelinetheatre.com or call 773.334.4477. For more information about the show, go to www.mamiwheredmyogo.com or call 312.391.2536.