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A Call 2 Conscience, That Uppity Theatre Company, Bread & Roses, Moonstone Theatre Company and Subversive Theatricals
In Partnership with The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
and The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Present
Readings of Select Works from
WOMEN+ ON THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY
A Collective Portrait of a Nation in Doubt and Transformation
The Groundbreaking Initiative on the State of Democracy in America
By 36 Acclaimed Women+ Playwrights
Thursday Oct 29
6:30 The Hi Low Listening Room
Come join us for our FREE presentation of select plays from Women+ On The Edge of Democracy, a groundbreaking initiative encouraging conversation about American democracy initiated by the Flynn Center (Jay Wahl, Executive Director) in Vermont and The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (Leslie Swackhamer, Executive Director).
The Flynn, an artistic catalyst in Burlington for nearly 100 years, created this groundbreaking cultural and civic initiative which commissioned 36 prominent women+ playwrights from around the world to write ten-minute plays or monologues in response to these urgent questions: What is the current state of democracy in America? What can history, global context, or futurism offer us in this pivotal moment?
Women+ on the Edge of Democracy sets out to form a collective portrait of a nation in doubt and transformation – seen through the eyes of women+ playwrights from around the world who have long chronicled America’s contradictions and dreams. The commission welcomes work from across the political spectrum. Through comedy and tragedy, rage and tenderness, hope and fear, these writers will map a picture of America today – revealing how democracy feels to those who have spent their lives giving voice to the unseen and unheard.
The following plays will be featured:
MAYA
by Dael Orlandersmith
THE PARDON
by Jane Anderson
PECKING ORDER
by Elizabeth Diggs
REASONABLE SUSPICION
by Lisa Loomer
THE COLLAPSE OF THE HIVE
by Migdalia Cruz ·
AND WHERE HAS IT GONE THAT THICK AND HEAVY HISTORY BOOK WE CARRIED
THROUGH THE HALLS OF LEARNING, SKINNIED NOW, PAGES AND PAGES YEARS AND
YEARS ERASED. WASN'T IT BEAUTIFUL?
by Susan Miller ·
ATTESTATION
by Lynn Nottage ·
THINGS I WORRY ABOUT.
by Bridget Carpenter
SEARCHING FOR ELSIE PARRISH
Heidi Schreck
This Work was commissioned and originally produced by The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont. Jay Wahl, Executive Director in Partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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