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Summer Play Festival 2017: Fight For Your Rights!
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Fight for your Rights is a compilation of experiences, from local New England playwrights and performers, of being disenfranchised and misjudged, fighting for their rights, as well as what people have done to help others in those positions. The features plays cover everything from racism, misogyny, homophobia, religious intolerance, and discrimination or hardship due to illness. This collection of new works ranges from uplifting to heart-wrenching and features talent from across the Boston Area.
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The Plays
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Gotta Start Somewhere by Jan Soolman
Directed by Joey Pelletier
Featuring: Meg Anchukaitis, Eva Bilick, Miranda Reilly and Marie Thompson
Different personalities deal with challenges and the overwhelming threats around them. Gotta Start Somewhere is about realizing that maybe one person can make a difference, at least in their own life. In this play, which takes place on a pharmacy shelf, a timid pack of birth control pills learns from her bold shelf mate and from an older, wiser, pack of viagra that she can stand up for herself, fight for her rights, and the rights of others.
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Becoming a Man by Charles Knight
Directed by Joey Pelletier
Featuring: Chester Domoracki, Eva Bilick, Miranda Reilly, Meg Anchukaitis and Marie Thompson
Becoming a Man tells the story of a struggle for personal dignity and survival during traumatic assault and concludes with important insight into how the decision is made through life experience to fight for rights for all.
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A Bedtime Story by Greg Hovanesian
Directed by Preston Graveline*
Featuring: Bailey Libby, Robin Ann Rapoport, Colin McIntire and Holly Escott
A woman is fighting for the rights of another human being: a child who is trying to find safety. And though children may not understand the concept of fighting for their rights, successfully escaping a land of oppression is, in my view, a form of fighting.
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An Alternative to Alternative Facts by Susan Goodell
Directed by Melinda Marr
Featuring: Ellie Brelis, Sarah Taylor and Claire Davies
It's inauguration day and two sisters struggle with the third to return her to reality. Relationship to theme: family members fight for the truth in an unreal political climate.
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La Fin du Silence by Michael Walker
Directed by Joey Pelletier
Featuring: Eva Bilick
At fifteen, Simone fought her attacker but then told no one what happened. Now, she is taking thevery difficult step of breaking her silence and in doing so, she is fighting again.
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Eden in Chains by Patrick Gabridge
Directed by Preston Graveline
Featuring: Marie Thompson and Sonya Joyner
A white police officer arrives to enforce a new town ordinance against front yard vegetable gardens.Terry is a black gardener and homeowner who insists she has a right to grow food for herself on her own property and finds herself in handcuffs. Inspired by cases of real anti-vegetable garden ordinances in communities in the U.S. and Canada.
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Fuck Cancer by Elizabeth Dupre
Directed by Elizabeth Dupre
Featuring: Laurie Singletary and Bailey Libby
The realities of advanced cancer.
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That Time We Were Followed by Laurie Singletary
Directed by Elizabeth Dupre
Featuring: Laurie Singletary
A personal story about how racism can appear in the most unexpected places.
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Location: Boston Playwrights Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Dates: June 9-25, 2017
Curtain Times: Thursdays at 8:00pm, Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm
Tickets: $20.00 General Admission, $15.00 Student/Senior
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