Program A
Work
Conceived by Yvonne
Conybeare, Book by Anthony P. Pennino, and Music by Rob Kendt
Played by a band of
singer/folk musicians, a ‘reading' of a two-act musical based on the
lesser-known Louisa May Alcott novel Work: A Story of Experience.
Christie Devon rejects marriage to the boy next door and seeks
fulfillment and independence through “work that I can put my heart
into… to be a useful, happy woman.” From the creators of The Devil and Tom Walker (2007)
Program
B
The Straitjacket
by Dan Evans
A LuLu LoLo Production
In Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1871, poet/recluse Emily Dickinson’s
sheltered life is interrupted by a traveling woman magician looking for
a room to rent while a notorious confidence man prone to violence roams
the neighborhood hunted by local police and baying hounds
Nellie and
the Madhouse
by Laura
Livingston
The story
of groundbreaking journalist Nellie Bly’s effort to start her career…
by getting herself committed to an insane asylum.
Program
C
The Real
Housewives of the 19th Century
by David Lally
produced by the
Oxy-Morons
The original "real housewives", Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, the
Beecher sisters and Sarah Hale arrive at the very first Women Writer's
Convention in 1856. But it's a trap. The well-known male writers
of the time have lured these women under false pretenses. Their
real plan? Ridding the world of those damn scribbling
women! In this fight of men vs. women, can the women win?
Program D
A
Brief History of Crossdressing in the Civil War
by
Andrea Pinyan
a Radio Hound Production
A modern and
humorous fantasia of
heroic transvestism during our nation's bloodiest conflict. Follow our
real-life Heroines Bold Sarah Emma Edmonds, Loreta Janeta Velazquez,
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman through their unlikely and little-known exploits
in the "men-only" world of war.
Mary
MacLane: Confessionalist
www.marymaclane.wordpress.com
"Oh, Dear, Sweet, Bitter Olive"
Written
and Directed by Trish Harnetiaux (and Mary MacLane)
Starring Emily Davis and Corey Tazmania
1902 Butte, Montana
introduces us to adolescent sensationalist
memoirist confessionalist, 19 year-old Mary MacLane. Mary wishes
to marry the devil, or run away with her schoolteacher (Fanny Corbin!),
but sometimes, she’s content just sitting and eating an olive.
"Men Who Have Made Love to Me"
Written
and Directed by Normandy Raven Sherwood (and Mary Maclane)
Starring Juliana Francis Kelly
Mary Maclane gives live,
unhinged, and occasionally maudlin boudoir
commentary on (a recreation of) her (lost) 1917 silent film of the same
name.
Program E
When the World
Broke in Two: A Visit with Willa Cather
by Toni Schlesinger
ALastMinuteProduction
A journalist from the far distant future goes back in time
on Proust/Air to 1922 to interview Willa Cather in her Greenwich
Village apartment and ask her a very important question. Then the
tables are turned but --- aren't they always.
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