World Premiere TRAPS is Coming to Cannonball Festival
The show will take place on September 24 at 5:30pm.
By: Emmy Rice Sep. 06, 2025
Xora Odelle re-mounts an updated version of the intimate and gripping “Of Mice and Women” for the Cannonball stage, bringing new life and difficult social questions to larger audiences this Fringe.
How does abuse weave its way into our lives and how do we do the delicate work of undoing it? Xora Odelle, a survivor of abuse and a controversially mindful storyteller, sharpens her focus on abusive relationships in TRAPS, a reckoning of harms done in past relationships, during the 2025 Cannonball Festival on September 24th at 5:30 PM, September 25th at 9:30 PM, and September 28th at 6:30 PM at the Asian Arts Initiative Storefront with $25 standard and pay-what-you-can ticket options ($5-50) available now at fringearts.com. This show is recommended for audience members ages 18+ as it contains violence and sexual situations. Further content questions can be directed to xoraodelle@gmail.com.
“It’s about… two people who are really trying to love each other,” says Odelle. She explains, “I want the audience to think of ways their own relationships might fit into these abusive dynamics so that we can demystify what abuse looks like and rid it of the pity that most people offer.” The artist explains that “…the desire to force stability when it is not there, especially during times where control of our own lives feels sparse” makes this play so vital to our current moment.
The playful and tragic show about a couple trying to survive the world and each others’ love uses futurism, vivid characters, and dialogue ripped right from the artist’s life to uncover what is at the core of our need for a perfect victim and villain.
ABOUT XORA ODELLE
Xora Odelle is a director, performer, and writer who is a strong believer in the power of stories to inspire change and reflection in ourselves and in the world. She has an intense curiosity in the magic of the mundane and the mundanity of magic. She strives to connect the extremes of the human experience to uncover what is at our core.
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