For those of you who are in or near Cape Cod this weekend, here is more information on the
Peace and Justice Theater Festival in which my play - "Peace" - will be a part.
The Cape Cod branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom announces a Peace and Justice Theater Festival consisting of seven original ten-minute plays, to be performed at three different locations during the weekend of June 3rd through June 5th.
WHEN and WHERE:
Friday, June 3, 7:30 pm, Wellfleet Public Library, West Main Street, Wellfleet
Saturday, June 4, 7:30 pm, Unitarian Church of Barnstable, Route 6A and Phinney's Lane, Barnstable
Sunday, June 5, 2:00 pm, Eldredge Public Library, 564 Main Street, Chatham
I plan to be at both the Saturday and Sunday performances.
ADMISSION: Free will donation.
SOME BACKGROUND ON THE WILPF: Since its founding in 1915, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom has connected women around the world by affirming that peace and justice are inseparable. The Cape Cod branch of WILPF works to create justice and peace locally, nationally, and internationally. WILPF envisions a transformed world at peace, where there is racial, social and economic justice for all people everywhere. We continue to take action based on the interconnections of war, poverty, racism, sexism, hunger, ableism, classism, heterosexism, homelessness, and economic exploitation as forms of violence in our communities and our country. For the Festival we are presenting plays which make connections among these tides, exploring the roots of these sources of violence, and illuminating the seeds of change in ways that inspire reflection and action in the audience. Over seventy plays were submitted to the Festival, and seven were chosen for the performance readings.
PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS & DIRECTORS
How to Walk Out of a Restaurant: by Jillian Weise, directed by Sue Bowlin – Humorous and sad experiences of a disabled woman searching for a healthy lasting relationship.
Huma’s Loom: by Joyce Walsh, directed by Deborah Peabody – A Taliban Afghanistan widow confronts prejudice and tries to save her children from poverty and shame.
The Jar: by Cynthia Mercati, directed by June Douglass-White – A jar in a decimated Polish village brings a former Nazi and a Holocaust survivor together.
Let Freedom Sing: by Donna Sorbello, directed by Dianne Ashley – A mother helps her young American soldier son, just returned from Iraq, with his distress and guilt.
Peace: by Barry Oshry, directed by Candyce Rusk – During Rosh Hashanah a father and daughter confront each other over the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Slave Day: by Wilderness Sarchild, directed by Tammy Harper – Through the eyes of a junior high school girl we see how her school reinforces racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice.
The Test: by Paula Caplan, directed by Jeff Spencer – A literacy test means the difference between life and death to a death row inmate.
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