For Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the UTC Women's Center presents:
 
"The Pomegranate Seed"
by Cosy Sheridan
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Roland Hayes-Fine Arts Center
8:30 PM
 
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." 

 
Sara K. Peters
Women's Center Director
Coordinator for Education and Advocacy
The Transformation Project
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University Center, Room 334
Department 3203
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Phone: 423-425-5605
 

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