The Future Is Female, by Nandita Shenoy (Flint, MI)

The Future Is Female, by Nandita Shenoy
Flint Repertory Theatre

Set in the not-too-distant future, this comic send-up of wellness spas and self-empowerment retreats focuses on four women who reflect on what’s needed to be seen as fully female. Throughout their week-long journey at the Future is Freedom Retreat, the women bond over their collective dislike of naming their sleeping quarters in honor of the female goddess within, changing their diets to enhance their womanly cycles, and an overwhelming desire to ingest copious amounts of meat and gluten. All the while, the women are unsuspecting players in a plot to foil the conservative governmental forces through ‘divine femininity’.