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Caffeinated Women

by Brittyn Dion Bonham

 

a STRANGEGIRLZZ Reading at Bechdel Project

June 2025

CAST: Aaliyah Raghnal, Antony Terrell, Caitlin Kirk, Danielle Breitstein, Gaby Smith, Zachary Croft, Patrick O'Connell

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Director: Em Hausmann

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Produced by STRANGEGIRLZZ

CALLING ALL FREUD-o-PHILES: Nearly 120 years after his “Dora: A Case of Hysteria” was published, Sigmund Freud awakens to strike a deal with the FDA. This deal allows Freud to poison all caffeinated drinks with hysteria. Caffeine is marketed in a new food pyramid as an essential nutrient for women/femme people but as something VERY unsafe for men. Upon re-entering living society, Frued resurrects his psychotherapy client and OG Hysteric, Dora to assist his jazzercised hijinks. Together, Freud and Dora—with the help of Evelina, Right, and Left—attempt to influence one modern day woman who opposes the new caffeine regulations.

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