Mother Nature isn\u2019t mad, she\u2019s just disappointed. She\u2019s poured so much beauty and care into us, her children, and what have we done with it? Burned it all down. But she understands. She\u2019s seen destruction before (she still misses the dinosaurs), and she\u2019ll see it again.<\/p>\n
But the title character of Bhama Roget\u2019s cabaret show, \u201cMother Nature, The Farewell Tour,\u201d isn\u2019t here for any sort of audience excoriation or rant about climate change.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018I’m just here to make sure you have the best apocalypse ever,\u2019\u201d Roget explained. \u201cAnd then she does a PowerPoint presentation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMother Nature,\u201d coming to Erickson Theatre on Capitol Hill from April 2-5 as part of Intiman Theatre\u2019s ongoing cabaret series, can\u2019t be tidily summed up. As expected from a multidisciplinary artist like Roget, the show is many things: a rock concert,\u00a0opera, comedy and\u00a0ritual \u2014 a treatise on cosmic creation and destruction and the agony and ecstasy of a creative life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it’s also funny \u2014 I do bite the head off of a bat during a heavy metal song,\u201d Roget said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Written and performed by Roget, alongside a five-piece band, the show is directed by Jennifer Jasper and music directed by Brendan Milburn, who also contributed additional music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope it has the catharsis of a party, but also the catharsis of the truth being told,\u201d Roget said. \u201cThis is the show that I’ve been trying to write all my life, my whole career.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roget landed in Seattle from Garland, Texas, nearly 30 years ago, along with her sister who\u2019d landed a job at Fantagraphics. In 2004, Roget\u2019s Seattle career launched when she played Yitzhak in a remounting of the rock musical \u201cHedwig and the Angry Inch\u201d starring Nick Garrison at Re-bar. (The 2000 production, starring Garrison and Sarah Rudinoff<\/a>, was the first-ever regional production of \u201cHedwig\u201d following the show\u2019s meteoric off-Broadway run and a smash success.)<\/p>\n Roget went on to perform in plenty of high-profile Seattle shows \u2014 including the frenetic farces \u201cNoises Off\u201d<\/a> and \u201cBoeing Boeing\u201d<\/a> at Seattle Rep and the apocalyptic comedy \u201cMr. Burns, a post-electric play\u201d<\/a> at ACT Contemporary Theatre \u2014 to name just a few.\u00a0<\/p>\n Along the way, she\u2019s supported herself as (among other things) a barista, server, facilitator of corporate leadership programs and, for a while, star of Bartell Drugs commercials.\u00a0<\/p>\n But over time, Roget became less and less interested in being a vessel for other people\u2019s art and ideas.<\/p>\n In 2019, she\u2019d come back from a second unsuccessful (and expensive) sojourn to Los Angeles. \u201cI’m about to turn 50 and the theater in Seattle is kind of gone,\u201d she remembered thinking. \u201cI was working in a restaurant, I had no retirement and I thought, \u2018I can’t be an artist anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n But friends, some of whom Roget has been improvising with (primarily with the Bainbridge comedy group The Edge Improv) for decades, gently insisted that she write a proposal for a show. They took that proposal to a longtime friend and champion of artists, in hopes of funding Roget\u2019s work.<\/p>\n \u201cShe supported me for a year while I wrote this show,\u201d Roget said.<\/p>\n While the COVID-19 pandemic exploded, Roget poured all her frustration and hope into her work. \u201cWhat kept coming to me is, \u2018We are not meant to be living like this,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201c\u2018We’ve made a world that is toxic to us. We\u2019re in our pods, and many of us Gen X ladies are just sweltering \u2014 the world is on fire, I’m on fire.\u2019\u201d Who better to tell this story, she realized, than Mother Nature herself?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMother Nature\u201d may be the culmination of Roget\u2019s artistic life so far, but it\u2019s also what she called an \u201cunbecoming\u201d of all the things her career imposed on her, not least of which are the struggles of surviving as an independent artist and\u00a0performing in a female body.<\/p>\n \u201cI literally have a slideshow of photos of me in shows in Seattle, and I’m in my underwear in almost all of them,\u201d she said. \u201cI was unbecoming the person that I had to be to survive, which is the person that people hire, the person that gets picked for the job.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n She toured \u201cMother Nature\u201d to Edinburgh Festival Fringe<\/span> in 2024 and the High Performance Rodeo festival in Calgary in 2025 before bringing it home to Seattle. For the first time, Roget said, she knew her job was just to make this show exist, as an offering. Anything else just isn\u2019t up to her.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to put language to the anxieties of the moment we\u2019re in, and to acknowledge collective grief and the collapse of a shared worldview,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I have tremendous faith in humanity’s capacity for creating beauty and loving one another. I want people to remember how beautiful we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mother Nature isn\u2019t mad, she\u2019s just disappointed. She\u2019s poured so much beauty and care into us, her children, and what have we done with it? Burned it all down. But she understands. 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