Sponsored By The Void
The Co-Conspirators
Isaac Studio Theatre
July 18 – 20, 2025
Thistle Theatre at Greenside @ Riddle’s Court
August 1 – 16, 2025
Director: Melanie Godsey
Stage Manager: Pamala Campi
Scenic Designer: Amanda Sweger
Costume Designer: Andi Alhadeff
Lighting Designer: Kathryn Louise
Sound Designer: Kyna Shilling & Melanie Godsey
Sponsored By The Void had a sold out run in Seattle before moving to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a two week run. I did not travel with the group to Scotland, so I sent the stage manager with detailed paperwork for the technician at Thistle Theatre.
Melanie Godsey’s existential comedy, Sponsored By the Void, offers a queer awakening through the form of a supernatural visitor. … When The Void (Jennifer Ewing) waltzes in, Leah [Kelly Karcher] is immediately felled by her hot dom energy and her demand that Leah does exactly what she wants. “Do you eat?” Leah asks her, quivering. “I devour,” The Void replies.
Created by Seattle-based company The Co-Conspirators, this goofy, sultry sci-fi horror revels in Leah’s uncompromising newfound confidence, with Kennedy [Jed Mathre] looking on in horror and Leah’s friend Val (Be Russell, funny to her bones) watching with delight as she rejects everything she has previously accepted without resistance. … Eschewing subtleness, the play asks direct questions of how a woman can get trapped into a role she never asked for, and how she can – with support of a sexy, suited-up otherworldly entity – break her way out of it.
Kate Wyver, The Guardian
