Cosy Sheridan will present her one-woman show, “The Pomegranate Seed,” on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Messenger Recital Hall in Darbeth Fine Arts Center on the campus of Southwestern College.  The event is free and open to the public. 

“The Pomegranate Seed” is Sheridan’s take on the media’s message about women’s bodies, and her modern-day retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone’s journey to the underworld.

 “The Pomegranate Seed (An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image, and Myth in Modern Culture)” is a two-act narrative of songs and monologue chronicling one woman’s journey into the symbolic underworld and her emergence as a more vibrant and empowered woman.

In framing one woman’s life mythically as she moves into enlightenment, “The Pomegranate Seed” is a story of finding meaning in life’s experiences. The first act weaves together humor and music in an exploration of messages from the media, from cultural icons and family, Barbie dolls to fad diets, Eve and her apple, to the tragicomedy of bathing suit shopping. Sheridan as Everywoman comes to grips with her self-image and all that it implies, finding a way to joyfully inhabit her own body.
The second act parallels the Greek myth of Persephone, who was abducted to the underworld and forced to eat the food of the dead, the pomegranate seed. This modern Persephone, who falls in love with a biker named Hades, learns how to turn the food of the dead into the seed of her own rebirth.

Sheridan and her music have played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Dr. Demento Show. Winner of the Kerrville NewFolk songwriting award and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Troubadour award, Sheridan, according to The Boston Globe, is “a wonderfully lively, very funny and enormously amiable entertainer, with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, TV-happy and noisome culture.”