SHIELD MAIDEN Set To Conquer United Solo Theatre Festival

Breakout Canadian playwright brings fierce humour and feminism to the stage in the form of a 10th century motivational speaker.

Outrageous. Funny. Fierce. Unapologetic! This one-woman show takes you to tenth century Sweden for a Norse RED Talk. Think TED Talks with a Viking twist. Ingrid Larsdottir, Shield Maiden, motivational warrior, tells the untold truth of Viking women warriors as she seeks new recruits. But cracks in her emotional armour reveal a struggle with forces beyond her control. Critics call this the breakout show of 2019.

SHIELD MAIDEN is a clarion call that empowers everyone to find their own inner warrior. It also invites men to be allies in the battle for equality. This one-woman show written by Melanie Teichroeb in 2017 at the onset of the #MeToo Movement addresses sexism, gender bias, sexual freedom, and trauma with irreverence, empathy and humour. The dance between strength and vulnerability is explored. The warrior character Ingrid recruits new warriors and moves through her own personal history.

Inspired by a game changing archeological discovery, playwright Teichroeb breathes life into a woman warrior that history refused to acknowledge.

"More than a millennium ago in what's now southeastern Sweden, a wealthy Viking warrior was laid to rest, in a resplendent grave filled with swords, arrowheads, and two sacrificed horses. The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought. New DNA analyses of the bones, however, confirm a revelatory find: the grave belonged to a woman." (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/viking-warrior-woman-archaeology-spd/)

SHIELD MAIDEN United Solo Theatre Festival Thursday, October 31st 7:30pm Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street Buy tickets at http://unitedsolo.org/us/2019-shieldmaiden/