Melanie Teichroeb (Playwright/performer) and Sandy Cumberland (Production Manager) have toured Shield Maiden to New York City, Austin, Texas, Nanaimo and all across BC.
After this run of performances in Gabriola, Surrey and Coquitlam they head across the pond to the UK where Melanie performs in London, England on International Women’s Day with support from the High Commission of Canada and Canada House.
SHIELD MAIDEN ON GABRIOLA ISLAND, BC Phoenix auditorium @ The Haven
FEBRUARY 13TH
Shield Maiden in Surrey, BC
FEBRUARY 15TH
Shield Maiden in Coquitlam, BC week run at Evergreen Theatre February 17-23!
Shield maiden in london, england Artsdepot
with support from the High commission of canada
march 8th international women’s day
Funny, sexy, fierce and unapologetic!
Travel back in time and join the rowdy crowd at a 10th century Viking TedTalk. Ingrid Larsdöttir, bad ass warrior, offers simple how-to’s and practical advice to help you embrace YOUR inner warrior and live your life like a true Shield Maiden!
As Viking Garrison Commander Ingrid Larsdottir comedically endeavours to engage new recruits, she inadvertently reveals her own tragic and violent personal history. Watching this warrior struggle with her trauma is unsettling. Witnessing her tap into her inner strength is inspiring. Ingrid’s clarion call for equality and new recruits wins! She empowers women to reclaim the warrior archetype in a substantive way.
Dress up as your own inner warrior and make the crowd even rowdier! There will be a post show discussion so bring your questions, stay for photos with Ingrid. ASL interpreter (BSL for London) for the Deaf/HoH community provided.
Shield Maiden was written by Melanie Teichroeb who was inspired by the #MeToo Movement. Her live performance reflects the rage, humour, resiliency of women. The redheaded Viking addresses sexism, gender bias, sexual freedom, and trauma. Teichroeb draws on her own inner warrior to play this character.
Shield Maiden is a feminist solo show using a character from the past to encourage equality. It peels back the curtain to expose the truth that not enough has changed in the treatment of women since the time of Vikings…one thousand years ago.
This show challenges historical biases and gendered expectations about women and is based on a real historical character who history gaslit the hell out of.
“More than a millennium ago in what’s now southeastern Sweden, a wealthy Viking warrior was laid to rest, in a resplendent grave filled with swords, arrowheads, and two sacrificed horses. The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought. New DNA analyses of the bones, however, confirm a revelatory find: the grave belonged to a woman.” National Geographic
WHAT THEY SAY
“Shield Maiden Play gave me permission to find and then try out becoming my most powerful self. It awakened the badass woman warrior inside me who had been trapped for the past 20 years of my life. And let me tell you, this warrior is fierce, she is brilliant, she is powerful. And I like her. Thank you, Ingrid. Thank you Melanie Teichroeb. Watch out world, here I come.”
– Chloë Straw, Managing Director, Wave Consulting Ltd.
