TRAD at Pig Iron Studio

TRAD is a theatrical tear-down of the modern phenomenon of trad—or traditional—wives and the associated arsenal of gender enforcement, which also indulges our collective yearning for fantasies of escape. This trad wife is eternally pregnant with her husband’s seed: What could shake the ripeness of her faith in this idyllic existence?!

POV: Your husband is on his way home from work. You’ve got seven buns on the counter and one more in the oven, all baked from scratch, waiting for him. The peaches are bursting on the branch of your homestead’s orchard, while below ground something is nearing completion. You hear capital H-I-M whisper through the prairie grasses a song that melts your obstinate will, beckoning you to enter a wonderland of reliance and submission.