THE POWER VESTED IN ME

About

Have you ever felt threatened when someone shows you their engagement ring? Or been to a wedding and thought, “these people should NOT be getting married?” Maria DeCotis has too, except she’s the one marrying them. Drawing from her real-life experience as a professional wedding officiant, DeCotis delivers an hour of stand-up and musical comedy about the performance of happiness, the institution of marriage, and the power dynamics embedded in modern romance. With razor-sharp wit, original music, and fearless storytelling, she examines gender, societal expectations, sex robots, turning 30, and her unique perspective on legalizing love. It’s a darkly funny excavation of emotional power dynamics, social conditioning, and the ways people convince themselves and each other that everything is fine. Praised for her “endless intellectual curiosity” and “razor-sharp wit” that is “both hilarious and thought-provoking,” DeCotis dissects the subtle absurdities of gender, intimacy, and the performance of happiness.