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THE POMEGRANATE SEED (An Exploration Of Appetite, Body-Image And Myth In Modern Culture) NEW! NEW! NEW! Watch this VIDEO about The Pomegranate Seed Read thisINTERVIEW with Cosy in the Jan/Feb 2004 issue of HOPE Magazine
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SOME RECENT PERFORMANCES:
NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS CONFERENCE; Atlanta GA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; Austin TX WESTMINSTER COLLEGE; Salt Lake City UT COLLEGE OF ST. SCHOLASTICA; Duluth, MN UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE; Chattanooga TN UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA; Athens GA ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY; Canton NY BENEFIT FOR EQUUS EMBRACE; Bend OR BENEFIT FOR EATING DISORDER CLINIC OF DENVER; Denver CO SAUTEE-NACOOCHEE ARTS CENTER; Sautee GA MYTHIC JOURNEYS CONFERENCE; Atlanta GA UNIVERSITY OF MAINE'S Turn Beauty Inside Out; Kennebunk, ME CENTURY COLLEGE; White Bear Lake, MN EMORY UNIVERSITY; Atlanta GA AGNES SCOTT UNIVERSITY; Atlanta GA UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO; Boulder CO COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY; Ft Collins, CO EATING DISORDERS INFORMATION NETWORK; Atlanta GA AUBURN UNIVERSITY; Auburn AL COMMENTS ABOUT THE SHOW: The Pomegranate Seed is such a powerful show.... What a accessible way to tell an important story... entertaining and educational, and deeply personal and so empowering at the same time." - Aileen Fortune, Director; Turn Beauty Inside Out; University of Maine The real beauty of Cosy Sheridan is the way she can carry an audience through serious subject matter and still entertain them. - Janet Wacker, Dean of Students; Century College; Minnesota State Colleges and Universities ...An excellent choice...Our students, plus many of their family and friends, laughed and cried as she wove stories and images from ancient mythology plus contemporary references into her songs and monologue... it generated the most stimulating class discussion of the semester. We look forward to repeat performances here at Century. - Judith M. Roy, Coordinator,Women's Studies Program; Century College, White Bear Lake, MN |
National award-winning songwriter Cosy Sheridan has been performing her one-woman show, The Pomegranate Seed, across the country, delighting audiences with her distinctive take on the media's message about women's bodies, and her modern-day retelling of the greek myth of Persephone's journey to the underworld.
Audiences call the show affirming; after seeing the show one woman was overheard saying "Every woman in American should see this." The Pomegranate Seed (An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image and Myth in Modern Culture) is a two-act narrative of songs and monologue chronicling one woman's journey into the symbolic underworld and her emergence as a more vibrant and empowered woman. In framing one woman's life mythically as she moves into enlightenment, The Pomegranate Seed is a story of finding meaning in life's experiences. The first act weaves together humor and music in an exploration of messages from the media, from cultural icons and family. From Barbie dolls to fad diets, from Eve and her apple to the tragi-comedy of bathingsuit shopping, Cosy as Everywoman comes to grips with her body, her self-image and all that it implies, finding a way to joyfully inhabit her own body. The second act parallels the Greek myth of Persephone, who was abducted to the underworld and forced to eat the food of the dead, the pomegranate seed. This modern Persephone, who falls in love with a biker named Hades, learns how to turn the food of the dead into the seed of her own rebirth. Cosy Sheridan and her music have played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Dr. Demento Show. The winner of the Kerrville NewFolk songwriting award and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Troubadour award, 'The Boston Globe' called her "a wonderfully lively, very funny and enormously amiable entertainer, with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, tv-happy and noisome culture." 'The Albuquerque Journal' dubbed her "a buddhist monk in a 12-step program trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter." In reviewing her critically-acclaimed CD, Anthymn, Acoustic Guitar Magazine said, "If I were going to throw an all-girl dinner party at which I wanted to laugh and cry from the hor d'oeuvres to the chocolate pudding, Cosy Sheridan is the first woman I'd invite." |