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Seattle performance duo The Bonnies (Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson) merge their decade of comedy dance experience with their “more serious” art practice to debut an evening length joyride of grotesque femininity, experimental indulgence, and the intimacy of a friendship 15 years in the making. 

Inspired by the beloved absurdist 1966 Czech New Wave film, Daisies, The Bonnies harness their perceived femininity-the silly, slutty, trivial, and excessive-to craft a world where fantasies can play out on a larger-than-life scale: a candy-colored world of impulse and freewheeling femme chaos. In a collision of eras, The Bonnies pull from 60s cinema, Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue, the cultural phenomenon surrounding Lorena Bobbitt, and Jenny and Kaitlin’s fantasy bedroom dances-both adolescent and contemporary. Working their way towards euphoria, The Bonnies (and their giant rainbow monster puppet alter egos) teeter between vision and delusion, manifesting a shared destiny built from queer plutonic love. 

Featuring original music by Jenny and costume/design by Kaitlin, I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire, We’re on Fire grapples with the morally complex territory of fantasy, violence, and vulnerability of desire, cloaked as a ditzy comedy routine.

Premiering March 2026 at 12th Ave Arts Mainstage.