Post-Traumatic Theater | Poet and Storyteller Barbie Angell

The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Barbie Angell is a poet and storyteller, children’s book author and emcee. Threading all of it, she’s a survivor. She’s candid about the range of abuse she experienced throughout her youth, and a quarter-century of ongoing psychological abuse she alleges from a domestic partner.
The last few years have been particularly difficult for my guest today. While the pandemic brought its own fears and isolation for Angell, recent health issues have taken a toll. In the week before our conversation, she spent four days in the hospital.
Of course, Angell has always leaned on her traumas for her artistic expression. Several years ago, The Magnetic Theatre premiered “Death By Sparkle,” Angell’s autobiographical play deriving its name from a time she drank window cleaner in a suicide attempt. We’ll hear about all of it, along with two vignettes from her upcoming self-fundraising show, "Uncensored"—March 27 at LaZoom.
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