The Gathering of the Mother Moth Peoples

Premiered May 2015 in Philadelphia, PA at 1fiftyone Space

Directed/Created by Oliver Jane
Performed/Created by: Caitlin Antram, Bastion Carboni, Amy Frear, Paul Harlan, and Evelyn Shuker
Creative Consultant: Christina Gesualdi
Light Design: Eric Baker
Musical Direction: Alex Bechtel 
Set Design: Andrew Grasso

Produced by Oliver Jane and Carol-Jeanette Jorgensen of Plump Olive Productions

Come celebrate spring, nature, abundance, love, fertility, birth, sex, and fire with some newly baptized neo-pagans. Watch these earth-based spirituals give thanks to the great Goddess(s) with ritual: wild, reverent, loud, and sexually loaded. Who are these Mother Moth People ring leaders?... These well-intentioned, bright eyed, self-educated - and somewhat misguided - spiritual leaders? Faking it to make it right in front of your very eyes.

Based on Oliver Jane’s experience learning from the Pagan and Earth-Based Spiritual traditions handed to them from the women in their maternal bloodline. This piece is an attempt to honor cherished family traditions and flirt with the ridiculousness often inherent inside fervent spiritual reverence and fundamentalism, while unpacking the ways appropriation and colonial oppression manifest within Earth-Based Spiritual traditions, Earth reclamation practice, Witch communities, and Neo-Pagan communities.

Received an honorable mention for Best Ensemble for Phindie's 2014/15 Critics’ Awards: The best in Philadelphia theater!

"The show promises a raucous party with hand drumming, fire jumping and slightly misguided neo-pagans." - Shuan Brady, Metro Philadelphia - read more

"...a lampoon of American privilege from an odd angle, of secular spirituality, bolstered by a genuine sharing of togetherness, affection, and a canny understanding of the potential crossover between live performance and ritual." - Julius Ferraro, Phindie - read more