Can’t Scare Me, the story of Mother Jones
Written and performed by OBIE-Award winning actress Kaiulani Lee
“Mark Twain says that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” according to Mother Jones, as brought to life by OBIE Award-winner Kaiulani Lee in this brave new work about the formative days of the American labor movement. Called “the most dangerous woman in America,” Mother Jones “educated, agitated, and organized” on behalf of child laborers, coal miners, steel workers, and all working people. Through an artful blend of history, biography, and a liberal dose of Mother Jones’s famous wit, “Can’t Scare Me” brings out some urgent “rhymes” of yesterday and today in a riveting, passionate, and fiery solo performance.
October 14 – 30, 2011, Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Sprenger Theatre, 1333 H St NE, Washington, DC
February 17, 18, & 19, 2012, GMU’s TheaterSpace
Tickets: cfa.gmu.edu or 888-945-2468
Mother Jones is…
STAY
Conceived by Heather McDonald and Susan Shields
Written and Directed by Heather McDonald, Choreographed by Susan Shields
This innovative performance merges theater, dance, SLAM multimedia, and music to wrestle with the issue of impermanence and all the ways we long for things, people, and life to simply Stay.
November 11 – 27, Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC
The April 27 & 29 performances of STAY have been canceled. Please contact tfa@gmu.edu if you have questions.
STAY is…
The Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Edgar from a literal translation by Deborah Gearing
Directed by Rick Davis
Urgent questions of our time rise up and collide: Does a scientist’s responsibility end with the moment of discovery? What is the role of faith and its institutions in a changing world? In this new translation of Brecht’s masterpiece, the professional and academic companies of Theater at Mason promise to rock some worlds and change a few lives.
March 29 – April 7, Harris Theater
Tickets: cfa.gmu.edu or 888-945-2468
A Co-Production of TFA and the Mason Players
The 12th Annual First Light Discovery Program
TFA’s signature play development program featuring staged readings of new work by national and regional playwrights, and the rising voices of student and community writers.
June 9, TheaterSpace
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Pay What You Can at the door!
