Spitfire: a space femme fantasia
by Lyndsey Bourne ✷ Dir. May 2021
World Premiere Production
Produced by Ann Marie Dorr
Dramaturged in collaboration with Sarah Lunnie and Isabella Zorich
Performed by Lily Goldberg, Olivia Graceffa, Petra Hinds, Nina Kolman, Onyeka Obi, Mati Rogers, Ingrid Song, and Sara Stebbins
Mentored by Amy Holzapfel
Produced with the Williams College Theatre Department as honors work in coalition building and contemporary feminist storytelling
Photos by Keith Foreman
“Spitfire: a space femme fantasia is a play-thing about a group of female pilots who were secretly tested for astronaut training by a military doctor working with NASA in 1960. A historical story juxtaposed and interspersed with scenes from a contemporary, fictional story about Polly, a space-obsessed teenage girl and a queer romance that goes wrong. The whole thing ends in this queer futurity/utopian rock concert in zero gravity.”
— Program Descrption