Women & Patriarchy
July 2019 through June 2020
In Person and Online
A Reading Series Exploring
Women & Patriarchy through
the Lens of Theatre History.
From PTE’s 20XX production of XXXXXX. PHOTO: Gerry Goodstein.
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 @ 7PM
The Nyack Library
59 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Mon, Nov 25, 2019 @ 7PM
Downtown Art
70 East Fourth Street
New York, NY 10003
The Trojan Women
By Euripides
Adapted by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Directed by Karen Case Cook
The Trojan Women by Euripides in a new version by poet Gwendolyn MacEwen about which Margaret Atwood has written " It's significant that MacEwen would choose to translate The Trojan Women and Helen texts, for after all, they are filled with the plaint of women. The vocabulary of these translations is so much MacEwen's own that they seem almost to have been written by her. These translations are deeply felt."
Read the interview with director Karen Case Cook.
Read about women and fashion in the ancient world by Debbi Hobson.
SPONSORED BY WELD REALTY AND ELAN FLOWERS.
Saturday, January 4, 2020 @ 7PM
The Nyack Library
59 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Monday, January 6, 2020 @ 7PM
Downtown Art
70 East Fourth Street
New York, NY 10003
The Duchess of Malfi
By John Webster
Directed by Diana Green
The widowed Duchess of Malfi defies her two powerful brothers who do not want her to remarry by secretly marrying a man of her choosing, a man below her station, her steward Antonio. When they uncover her deception, the brothers plot a series of events that leads them all to destruction in this dark tapestry of sibling rivalry, forbidden love, unquenchable ambition.
Read the interview with director Diana Green.
Read about the costume dramaturgy of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by Debbi Hobson.
SPONSORED BY HUDSON SPECTACLES AND WELD REALTY.
Sat, March 7, 2020 @ 7PM
The Nyack Library
59 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Leo Lion
One of literature’s most complex and compelling anti-heroines, the beautiful and intelligent Hedda yearns to escape her marriage to a man she finds numbingly dull. Suffocated by the expectations and limitations of society, she is driven by a desire to have control. First produced in 1891, Ibsen’s masterpiece shocked European society; now, 125 years later, it continues to challenge audiences.
SPONSORED BY HUDSON SPECTACLES AND ELAN FLOWERS.
Saturday June 27, 2020 @ 7PM
The Nyack Library
59 South Broadway
Nyack, NY 10960
Dusa, Fish, Stas & Vi
By Pam Gems
Directed by Karen Case Cook
“Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi may be almost 40 years old, but the struggle it depicts continues: women who are exploring sisterhood, transforming their sexual relationships with men, wrestling with what it means to be a mother, and confronting the possibility that a price might be exacted for their independence. If that sounds dry, it's not. There are moments of delirious joy and laughter.” - The Guardian
SPONSORED BY HUDSON SPECTACLES AND ELAN FLOWERS.
