Past Shows
69Stories: One Pervert's Tale & No Good Deed
"Mollena Williams is a fascinating performer...To enter this
world, you couldn't ask for a better guide."
— Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"The versatile Williams...graces her strong presence and vivid
acting skills with an engagingly warm persona. She's a very capable
storyteller as well, sketching characters with deft performance strokes."
— Robert Hurwitt, S.F. Chronicle
"Sensationalistically sexy, her tales of innocence eagerly lost
consistently captivate...a scintillating, brutally honest, exciting night
of theatre...Top recommendation!"
— Tom Kelly, S.F. Bay Times
Mollena Williams On KQED's Forum
The topic: solo theater in the Bay Area.
One of the interviewees: Crowded Fire company member Mollena Williams.
Listen
to the show on KQED's website! (Mo comes on about half an hour in.)
69Stories: One Pervert's Tale
and
No Good Deed
written and performed by
Mollena Williams
performed October 8 – November 13, 2004, at the
EXIT on Taylor, San Francisco.
Last
seen with Crowded Fire as Roach in Slaughter
City, talented solo artist Mollena Williams takes the art of storytelling
to a whole new level in her self-authored shows. With unrelenting wit,
humor and sexiness, Ms. Williams spares neither herself nor her former
partners as she treats audiences to a closer look at the wild side of
love, partnership and good sex.
You think it's easy to find someone to respect you after you lick their
boots? Neither does Williams, whose hilarious, erotic and poignant 69Stories:
One Pervert's Tale first enticed audiences down the road less traveled
to the San Francisco S/M community in 2001. The show played to sold-out
crowds and surprised even other perverts with its daring and hilarity.
Now, under the direction of Crowded Fire Artistic Director Rebecca Novick,
this irrepressible submissive diva will revive her legendary performance — for
which she won a special award from the SF Bay Guardian for "Most
Radiant Presence in Shackles" — in repertory with her newest
solo creation, No Good Deed.
Conceived as a prequel to 69Stories, No Good Deed opens
as Williams is accused of sexually harassing a female co-worker while
working at a major bank. Things go from weird to weirder as Williams
navigates prejudice and bureaucracy to prove her innocence. By the end,
her first encounters with the strange world of alternative sexuality
have changed her forever and set her on the path to become one of the
Bay Area's most knowledgeable sources on dangerous liaisons. Directed
by noted Bay Area solo performance expert Amy Mueller, this show promises
to be as hilarious and treacherously truthful as 69Stories.
Director, 69Stories: Rebecca Novick
Director, No Good Deed: Amy Mueller
Featuring: Mollena Williams
Scenic Design: Pegeen McGhan
Costume Design: Bree Hylkema
Lighting Design: Heather Basarab
Sound Design: Paul Lancour
Stage Manager: Peggy Powell
Assistant Stage Manager: Beth Powell
Photographer: Mollena Williams