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3.1.81 part of Quickies #2 |
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by Valerie Jean Johnson |
November 7 -23, 2008 |
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directed by Claire Avitabile |
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis |
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CAST
Emma Gochberg
Caitlin Hammel
Billie Jo Konze
Ariel Pinkerton
Eva Nelson
Danielle Siver
ARTISTIC TEAM
AD/ASM - Emilia Aghamirzai
Set & Sound Design - Claire Avitabile
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3.1.81 |
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Six women. Revolutionaries. Terrorists. A meditation on violence as political action, inspired by the real-life memoir of Vera Figner. This play is about choosing violence as a means of liberation and freedom from oppression. It is a play about a woman choosing to abandon and betray her pre-established role of wife and mother in order to live the life and seek the life she desires. Vera Figner was a revolutionist who, with a gaggle of female friends in tow, known as "The Will of the People", planned to and successfully overthrew Czar Alexander II in Russia on March 1, 1881. She was not arrested until two years later, and playwright Valerie Jean Johnson draws the text of 3.1.81 from Figner's journals, poetry, and prison scribbles. |
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Last Updated
October 3, 2009