The HeteroMonotony Project at Episcopal Actors' Guild

A documentary theatre piece exploring women's desire and dissatisfaction within marriage.

In a cultural moment of unprecedented choice, but also a renewal of conservative panic and pressure, marriage is still consistently framed as a social achievement and ideal, and a “happily after ever” solution . But Is it ever possible to rehabilitate an institution so squarely built on patriarchy, property, ownership, and normativity? This play, based on a series of interviews with divorcées, is an exploration of female desire and dissatisfaction in hetero-monogamous (or hetero-monogamous presenting) marriages that then begs the question, "What happens when we push beyond aspiring to an 'I do' and fully realize the power of saying 'I don’t (anymore)'?

Kinship Theatre Collective's The Heteromonotony Project is presented in partnership with the Episcopal Actors' Guild's Open Stage grant.