The Family Reunion
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At the Thirteen-Millionth Annual Great Apes Family Reunion, the gorilla matriarch has organized a separate picnic for the great ape females, in order to call out their enabling of human males in the destruction of the planet. It is her thesis that primate policies are determined by male reproductive concerns, and that the gorillas, alone among the other ape species, have evolved the most effective social order to curb the violence innate in all male hominids.
Her attempts to push the agenda are undermined by a number of distractions: the advanced pregnancy of the orangutang, the violence of the chimp females, the party behavior of the bonobo, and the infighting between the human primatologist and the human ecofeminist.
As the matriarch attempts to ram through her resolution, the primatologist reveals the devastating family secret behind the seemingly peaceful and exemplary gorilla troops.
This one-act is a playful, but profound reminder that human evolution has been maladaptive in the extreme, and that our forms of social organization have been disastrously enabling of male hominid violence.
8 women
Single set
45 minutes
Her attempts to push the agenda are undermined by a number of distractions: the advanced pregnancy of the orangutang, the violence of the chimp females, the party behavior of the bonobo, and the infighting between the human primatologist and the human ecofeminist.
As the matriarch attempts to ram through her resolution, the primatologist reveals the devastating family secret behind the seemingly peaceful and exemplary gorilla troops.
This one-act is a playful, but profound reminder that human evolution has been maladaptive in the extreme, and that our forms of social organization have been disastrously enabling of male hominid violence.
8 women
Single set
45 minutes
