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The Skye Webb Walker Simulation Β· Season: Long Suffering Β· Work 4

FEMALE TROUBLES

A Musical Comedy Cabaret Β· IndyFringe Β· Indianapolis

Come to the metaphysical dry cleaners, where women go to drop off their troubles for a little while…

From being the only middle-aged person at the gym in a sea of 20 year olds, to forging your own path of identity in a cookie-cutter world, to being the one that holds it all β€” you'll laugh, you'll cry; there's scarves and stuffies and all original songs.

↓ Learn how we got here

The Skye Webb Walker Simulation

Find yourself
in the light
of the moon.

The Skye Webb Walker Simulation is a body of immersive theatrical work that is also a critique of the distance between how the world presents itself and how it actually works. It is built as a ritual the audience participates in β€” layered with game theory and astrology. The moon is the organizing image: nature's own illumination process, showing a little more of the truth each night until the whole face is lit.

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Ritual
Call-and-response, props, repeatable bits, a congregation that returns. The audience is not watching a critique β€” they are performing one. Ritual is how a hard argument becomes survivable, even joyful, to sit inside.
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Game Theory
Every institution is modeled as a game: stated rules vs. real payoffs, the moves that get rewarded, the moves that get you named "the problem." Naming the game is the first move toward changing it.
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Astrology
"Find yourself in the light of the moon." Not prediction β€” orientation. The chart is a planning instrument: a way to time the work and invite each audience member to locate their own arc in the same sky.
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Intimacy Direction
Both craft and theme. The discipline that keeps staged closeness safe becomes the metaphor for what care is supposed to be everywhere else β€” negotiated, consented, boundaried, real.
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8 Dimensions of Wellness
The proof β€” the frameworks made real
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14 Grand Challenges
The structure β€” the skeleton the saga hangs on
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Fruits of the Spirit
The soul β€” the moral interior
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8 Lunar Phases
The spine β€” nature's illumination, timing everything
Season: Long Suffering β€” the patience of staying inside a faulty system long enough to testify to it truthfully, without being consumed by it. Fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22–23 Β· fourth fruit
The Argument Β· Told as Testimony

Stated mission
vs. lived reality.
Three times over.

The point of the whole thing. Structural, personal, statutory. That triple gap is the show.

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The Structure
The Faulty Bridge
Government carries a duty to care for people. Rather than deliver on it directly, it offloads that duty onto 501(c)(3) organizations that are structurally under-funded and simultaneously over-policed β€” asked to hold enormous weight, denied the materials to bear it, then audited for the cracks. The predictable result: harm gets narrated as handled instead of being stopped.
The critique is of the bridge, not any single crossing. A claim about the structure of the whole sector β€” the design, not any one person standing on it.
2
The Lived Proof
The Problem Woman of Colour Cycle
If the bridge is faulty, this is what happens to the person who says so. Honeymoon β€” welcomed, needed, celebrated. Reality β€” she points out real problems and pushes for accountability. Retaliation β€” the organization decides she is the problem. Exit β€” she leaves. The bridge is unchanged. The next hire begins the honeymoon.
Raise that no one is doing what they claim β†’ get named "the problem" β†’ get pushed out. The cycle is the proof.
3
The Specific Legal Gap
Indiana Code 31-28 Β· Collaborative Care
Indiana Code Title 31, Article 28, Chapter 5.8 β€” Collaborative Care β€” establishes a voluntary, court-approved program for youth who aged out of foster care. A real, followable promise, written into law. Skye's reading: this is a template for lifelong collaborative care, a broker of resources framework that could hold a person at every threshold. The drama sits in the gap: a genuine promise, written down, age-capped in practice, and largely unrealized in spirit.
A better way already exists in law and goes unrealized. The Mandate for Leadership is a softer word for the anarchy the law was written to answer.
"The evaluation is not the lie. The evaluation is the most honest thing in the room β€” which is exactly why the gap it can't close is the whole show." The Skye Webb Walker Simulation Β· Series Bible
The Theatrical Lineage

How we
got here.

Seven works. One universe. Female Troubles is Work 4 β€” a prequel, staged after the reveal but set before it. The show is the origin story of what all the other works were built on top of.

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The Rosetta Stone
My Life as a Play
The key that translates everything after it. The passage from DCS to DMHA as a Goldilocks retelling β€” too much, too little, the fit that is "just right" β€” read across the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. Intimacy is present as both craft and theme. Nothing in the universe is legible without this one.
leads to
1
The Musical
The Welfare Lady
Child welfare, set to music. The show measures the promise of IC 31-28-5.8 (Collaborative Care) against what is actually delivered β€” grieving the children and workers lost in the gap. The faulty bridge made audible.
leads to
2
The Prequel Work
The Grand Challenge of Well-Meaning Beatitudes
A prequel that mirrors the Grand Challenges β€” "beatitudes" for a sector that blesses good intentions while outcomes stay unchanged. The staging metaphor: the bookstore as Charlotte's Web. A web of care spun word by word, a small creature saving another by writing about it. First staged Aug 28, 2025.
leads to
3
Its Own World Β· 6 Parts Β· 2025
A Place for Plant People
The universe's most immersive run and the birthplace of the Simulator reveal. Six parts, all 2025. In Part 3 (IndyFringe preview, Aug 13, 2025), Skye declares she is "the Simulator." The audience has been inside the simulation the entire time. The plant cast maps twelve zodiac characters across six axes β€” every sign, one complete wheel.
Flanner Fringe Feb 2025 Β· IndyFringe Aug 2025
origin story of everything above ↓
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You Are Here Β· The Prequel Β· Work 4
Female Troubles β€” A Musical Comedy Cabaret
The origin story, staged after the reveal but set before it. The metaphysical dry cleaners β€” where the stains a woman is asked to carry are taken in, tagged, and supposedly removed β€” opening into the song "I Hold It All." This show is what the Simulation looks like before the Simulator knew she was one.
FemmeFest Mar 2026 Β· Chatterbox Jazz Club May 31, 2026 Β· IndyFringe Aug 14–16, 2026
leads to
5
The Recruitment Engine Β· Runs Thursdays
The Alphabet Play: The Double Entendre Playbook
An improv format β€” every line means the surface thing and the true thing at once. The thesis, played for laughs. Thursday is the night the audience becomes the cast β€” and the team.
culminates in
6
The Culmination Β· IndyFringe Spotlight 2027
The Mandate for Lysistrata: Beyond the Skye
Everything funnels here. A signed counter-promise to answer a signed document β€” Skye as Lysistrata, withholding participation until the terms of care change. Signed the way Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration: with her full name, in the open, unmistakable. April 30 – May 16, 2027. Basile Theatre.
April 30, 2027 Β· IndyFringe Spotlight Season Β· Basile Theatre
"Every day leads to April 30. Not as a deadline β€” as a moonrise the whole calendar was built to catch." The Skye Webb Walker Simulation Β· Series Bible Β· Part VII

The Moon
Is With Us

Friday, March 27 Β· 6:30 PM
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Moon in Leo
4Β° 45' Β· Waxing Crescent
The Moon opens in Leo β€” expressive, generous, hungry to be seen. The collective emotional body of this show wants to perform its truth and be witnessed doing it. Opening night is emotionally lit.
Saturday, March 28 Β· 2:30 PM
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Moon in Leo
~17Β° Β· Approaching First Quarter
First Quarter Moon in Leo β€” the will to create is fully activated. Drama, warmth, and courage are at full waxing strength. The matinee crowd walks into a room that is already on fire.
Sunday, March 29 Β· 5:30 PM
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Moon in Leo / Virgo cusp
~29Β° Leo β†’ entering Virgo
The Moon finishes its Leo passage and crosses into Virgo by evening. Last show catches the final embers of the Leo fire before it shifts into craft and service. The closing night holds both the roar and the resolution.
Sunday, May 31 Β· 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM
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FULL MOON in Sagittarius
12Β° 29' Β· Lilith 18Β° Sag Β· Vertex 13Β° Sag Β· Chatterbox Jazz Club
The Full Moon sits at 12Β° Sagittarius β€” opposite the Gemini Sun β€” with Lilith conjunct and the Vertex within 1Β°. This is a night of fated encounters, wild truth, and the particular magic that happens when the moon is full and women are on a stage saying the unsayable. The Sun is in Gemini H12, Mercury rules the chart and sits at 28Β° Gemini β€” words are the entire point. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer in H1. The audience is already open before they sit down.
Friday, Aug 14 Β· 8:00 PM Β· IndyFringe
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Last Quarter Moon in Taurus
~21Β° Taurus Β· Waning Β· Releasing
The moon is in its reckoning phase β€” what was full is now releasing. Taurus grounds the emotional body. This is the opening night that asks the audience to set something down. They come in carrying it and leave lighter. Saturn in Aries squares your natal Libra Moon all three nights β€” the structure of your life is pressing against your emotional body in real time on stage.
Saturday, Aug 15 Β· 2:00 PM Β· IndyFringe
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Waning Crescent entering Gemini
~27Β° Taurus β†’ Gemini Β· The Moon goes quiet
The moon crosses into Gemini β€” the sign of the show's writers and the sign of the words themselves. A waning crescent matinee. The audience leans closer. Words become precious when the moon is this quiet. Mercury rules everything in this moment and Mercury is at home in Gemini.
Sunday, Aug 16 Β· 2:00 PM Β· IndyFringe
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Waning Crescent in Gemini
~10Β° Gemini Β· Final exhale
The last show of the IndyFringe run catches the moon in its most contemplative passage. Waning crescent in Gemini β€” the final exhale before a new cycle begins. A closing night that feels like completion at the cellular level. The new moon follows in days. The show ends exactly where the sky is ready to begin again.

The FemmeFest run: Leo Moon β€” fire, performance, witness. The Chatterbox shows: Full Moon in Sagittarius with Lilith conjunct β€” the wild feminine at full power. The IndyFringe run: Last Quarter through Waning Crescent β€” the moon releasing, the audience unburdening. Every run of this show has its own sky. The sky has always known what it was doing.

Where This Show
Lives in the Work

The Dissertation
From Extrinsic Selflessness to Intrinsic Knowing
Female Troubles is not about the dissertation. It is the dissertation β€” staged. The show's arc moves from women carrying external expectations to one woman setting the bag down in front of a room full of witnesses. That is the thesis enacted in real time.
The Theatrical Lineage
Production #5 of 8 Β· The Center Made Visible
Every show before this one was building the architecture. Female Troubles is the first show made collectively β€” not alone. The lineage moves from solo testimony toward communal creation, and this is where that turn fully lands.
S.K.Y.E. Β· Sovereign Keeper of Your Energy
The Show as Living Proof
The closing movement β€” I Hold It All β€” is the field report of what happens when the keeper has been keeping everyone else's energy for so long that it becomes the weight itself. The show is the live embodiment of why the academy exists.
The Organizing Question
"What does it look like when a community holds what institutions let go?"
Institutions let go of women's bodies β€” medicine did, family structure did, culture did. Female Troubles picks that up. Six women in a room holding each other's stories is not a cabaret. It is the answer to the question, in real time, with an audience.
"The sky is confirming placement. Female Troubles is not orbiting the center. It is the center made visible. Everything else in the ecosystem explains what she knows. This show is what she knows β€” standing in a room, in a body, saying it out loud in front of people who came because they needed to hear it."
The Skye Webb Walker Simulation Β· Indianapolis

The Women
Who Made This

Shared creation. Devised and performed together.

Actress Β· Creator
Skye Berger
β˜‰SunAries
☽MoonLibra
↑RisingSagittarius
Actress Β· Creator
Ana Hammersley
β˜‰SunScorpio
☽MoonLeo
↑RisingSagittarius
Actress Β· Creator
Maria Meschi
β˜‰SunAquarius
☽MoonCapricorn
↑RisingGemini
Actress Β· Creator
Abby Morris
β˜‰SunLibra
☽MoonVirgo
↑RisingGemini
Writer Β· Pianist Β· Creator
Elle Tyler
β˜‰SunLeo
☽MoonCapricorn
↑RisingSagittarius
Director Β· Creator
Anna Zimmerman
β˜‰SunAquarius
☽MoonCancer
↑RisingLeo
Credits

Music & Concept by Elle Tyler
Direction by Ana Hammersley
Content devised and performed by Skye Berger, Maria Meschi, Abby Morris & Anna Zimmerman

Three Sagittarius risings on the same stage. Two Aquarius suns. Two Capricorn moons. Two Gemini risings. This collective chart was assembled on purpose, even if no one knew it yet.

Eight Movements

We follow the ABC rule in our rehearsals: Always Bring Cookies πŸͺ

I
What We Bring In
Troubles
Troubles
All
II
Body Image
Crop Top Moms
Crop Top Moms
Anna
III
Expectations
Not That Kind of Woman
Not That Kind of Woman
Maria
IV
Existential Dread
What Will I Become
What Will I Become
Abby
V
Trauma Response
Stay at Home Mom
Stay at Home Mom
Elle
VI
Mothers
I See My Mother
I See My Mother
All
VII
Birth Stories
How Was Your Birth
How Was Your Birth
All
VIII
Generational Baggage
I Hold It All
I Hold It All
Skye

Which of these
is yours?

Select everything that lives in your body. Watch your score build. We have somewhere to send you when you're ready.

You're carrying
0 of 9 things

Sister. You're carrying a lot. There's a whole conversation happening about all of this β€” the weight, the magic, the way back. Come find it.

Join the conversation β†’

Leave Your
Words Here

Anonymously or with your name. This becomes part of the living record.

What women have left here

Your Friends
Need This Show

Buy a ticket. Book a session. Tell somebody. These are the only three things we need from you.

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Chatterbox Jazz Club Β· Indianapolis
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Reiki Session
One-on-one energy healing with Skye. For the woman who has been holding everything and needs someone to hold her for an hour.
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Sound Healing
Bowls, breath, and the particular silence that comes after. Individual and group sessions available.
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Astrology Reading
Hellenistic. Zodiacal releasing. Profections. Your chart read the way it was written β€” with precision and with care.
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Intimate sustained access. This is for the woman who is ready to do the real work with real support around her.
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The written record. Essays, dispatches, and the ongoing conversation about what it costs to be a woman who knows things.
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This show does not belong to the algorithm. It belongs to the women who find it because someone who loves them said you need to see this.

See You There

Female Troubles β€” original show art
Female Troubles β€” Chatterbox Jazz Club
Female Troubles β€” Chatterbox black poster
More resources β†’ skyewellnessacademy.com

You Don't Have
to Hold This Alone

Eating & Body

National Alliance for Eating Disorders

Helpline, support groups, therapist finder. Not NEDA β€” this is the active resource.

allianceforeatingdisorders.com β†’
Radical Self-Love

The Body Is Not an Apology

Sonya Renee Taylor's body liberation movement, community, and education platform.

thebodyisnotanapology.com β†’
Pleasure & Wellness

Come As You Are

Emily Nagoski's research-backed guide to women's sexuality and embodiment.

Identity

Therapy for Black Girls

Podcast and community centering mental wellness for Black women and girls.

therapyforblackgirls.com β†’
Boundaries

Set Boundaries, Find Peace

Nedra Tawwab's guide to naming what you need β€” for women taught not to ask.

Community

Skye Wellness Academy

Wellness programming rooted in the SAMHSA 8 Dimensions of Wellness.

skyewellnessacademy.com β†’
Crisis

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Call or text 988. Available 24/7. You don't have to be suicidal to call β€” crisis is crisis.

Trauma Therapy

SAMHSA National Helpline

Free, confidential, 24/7 treatment referrals. 1-800-662-4357.

samhsa.gov β†’
Body-Based Healing

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk's landmark text on trauma and embodied recovery.

Maternal Mental Health

Postpartum Support International

Helpline, support groups, provider directory for perinatal mental health.

postpartum.net β†’
Generational Healing

My Grandmother's Hands β€” Resmaa Menakem

Racialized trauma, bodies, and generational healing.

Complicated Grief

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay Gibson on healing from a mother who couldn't fully meet you.

Black Feminist Wellness

Therapy for Black Girls

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford's platform for the specific emotional lives of Black women.

therapyforblackgirls.com β†’
Joy as Resistance

Pleasure Activism β€” adrienne maree brown

The radical politics of feeling good. On pleasure, power, and who gets to rest.

Community Care

Black Women's Health Imperative

Dedicated solely to the health of Black women and girls.

bwhi.org β†’
Community

Find a Women's Circle

Search Meetup, local community centers, or faith-based communities and congregations.

Reading Together

All About Love β€” bell hooks

On the way women have been taught to abandon each other β€” and how to stop.

Skye Wellness Academy

skyewellnessacademy.com

Ongoing community wellness programming facilitated by Skye Berger.

skyewellnessacademy.com β†’