Pop culture and puppetry in PLEASE! at Theatre Project
Felicia Cooper is a creator and performer with a deep background in devised work, collaborative theater making, and puppetry who has put all that (and more) into a one-act solo performance, Please!, which launces a spring national tour at Baltimore Theatre Project March 6th-8th.
Working in concert with an impressive range and breadth of collaborators (credited individually below), Cooper has crafted a piece that harnesses an eclectic combination of pop culture (think, 90s music), projections, personal expression, and puppetry along with modern tech and 19th-century dramaturgy–all centered on what the production describes as “a pea-eating cam girl for the 21st century.”
With these, Peace! aims to explore both current and enduring questions of surveillance, public and private performance, and ultimately notions of who holds or wields power–and how. All of it providing a “high-intensity trip through expressionism and indie sleaze” in an ultimately joyful, playful, imaginative evening. With puppets.
Hear what creator/performer Cooper has to say about the piece in our conversation here:
For more on Cooper and the show, visit https://www.feliciacooper.com/performance-1/please
and, for tickets and performance times, https://theatreproject.org/please/
Please! originally premiered at Red Eye Theater in September 2025. Supported by the Tri M Foundation, it is slated to tour the United States in Spring 2026. The show was created by Felicia Cooper in collaboration with Lizz Windnagel, Davey Steinman, Sam Weisberg, Alice Endo, and Li Ping Vong, with music by Wil Wright and Lisa Frank.
