Get Her Outta Here | Broccolini Productions
Get Her Outta Here is a quirky show created and performed by Isabella Broccolini at Sideshow as part of Anywhere Festival. It is a monologue that lasts for about 40 minutes that will make you rack your brain to find meanings and connections. You have to go in there with an open mind because there is nothing straight about this show.
The scenography is simple: a suitcase, Isabella Broccolini’s body, and a sign that reads “Super Dark Chocolate.” Everything is red, including Isabella’s eyes, which gives the stage a spooky vibe. Isabella performs as the Red Lady. You might be asking “what can one do with this minimalist set-up?” I asked myself that same question, and the answer was no short of surprise. Isabella laid in the luggage, pushed it around, lifted it, swam on it, and even fucked it.
Why a suitcase of all things? I think that the luggage was meant to represent the Red Lady’s emotional baggage. The story is fragmented and this is a piece of absurdist theatre, so things don’t necessarily have to add up in a conventional sense. There were internal monologues about a possible murder, erotic fantasies, and stories narrated with alternative endings. But if there was one thing that functioned as a thread in this scattered and neurotic plot was the luggage which, at least to me, represented the place where the Red Lady collected her experiences and the object that she had to deal with every time that she went into a new experience.
This play grew on me. While at first I was not sold on the neurotic plot and presentation, by the end of the show, I came to appreciate it very much, particularly Broccolini’s acting and the ways that the absurd story made my brain wonder and come back in a loop. I found Broccolini’s performance amazing, and I particularly liked the expressivity of her face.
