the women eat chocolate

The Women Eat Chocolate

The Women Eat ChocolatePremieres May 20 - 28, 2016 The Theatre School at DePaul University Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30 P.M. Sunday at 2:00 P.M.

Graphic Zine by Line S.Play written by Caroline Macon

Directed by Heidi StillmanScenic Design by Angela McIlvainCostume Design by Courtney SchumLighting Design by James MitchellSound Design by Alyssa KerrDramaturgy by Kaysie BekkelaStage Management by Mario E. Wolfe

With my poetry, I hope I’m somewhat predictablein a strange and surprising way.

I want to have a trademark,and I want that trademark to be, like,peculiarity.

Paradox.Why would you want to be predictable?

Corpses are not pink,not even a corpse baby girl.How can cotton candy go stalewhen it is stale to begin?

Skydiving would make my final bucket listif it were only my cause of death.

I want to jump from a plane sans parachuteand crash like trash that waits to be bagged.

Criminals get hours to sweep the forest floor,I want my body to be what they’ve swept.

A murderer’s hands on my broken bones.He wishes he had gotten to break them first!

Caroline Macon is a poet and play-wright from Dallas. She is an English and Playwriting major at DePaul University. Her writing has been published in [PANK] and Crook & Folly. She is a member of “Poems While You Wait,” a team of poets and type-writers that writes poetry-on-demand to support the nonprofit, Rose Metal Press.

Line S. is from Vancouver. Intensely fasci-nated by conspiracy theories, enjoys making miscellaneous mixtapes, and doesn’t know what to put in biographies.Finds drawing to be the biggest source of pain in life.

At age 13, Alexandra Appleton is

certain she’s a poet. Her life spirals

out of control when her younger

sister, Dot, passes her in the race

to womanhood. After a psychedel-

ic trip, Alex struggles to distinguish

fantasy from reality. Are the adults

in Alex’s life out to get her? Is her

poetry teacher more than just a

friendly mentor? And most impor-

tantly, will Alex’s body catch up with

her brains? Two sisters struggle to

reclaim love and innocence while

navigating the ickiness of puberty.