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from Boston – Our Voices Together

Contact: Regina Eliot-Ramsay (617) 558-5554
elram0416@comcast.net
Date of Event: May 17, 2008

2nd Annual Our Voices Together Play Festival
at Wellesley College features Local Women Playwrights

WELLESLEY, MA: Nine Boston-area women will have their new plays featured in the 2nd Annual Our Voices Together Festival hosted by Wellesley Summer Theatre in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, May 17, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

This evening of staged readings is co-sponsored by Playwrights’ Platform, Boston and the International Centre for Women Playwrights’ for the purpose of highlighting plays by women. All the playwrights are members of Playwrights’ Platform, a Boston-based cooperative developmental theatre group.

Featured playwrights include: Ludmilla Anselm (Boston), Kelly DuMar (Sherborn), Hortense Gerardo (Boston), Geralyn Horton (Newton), Holly Jensen (Providence, RI), Regina Eliot Ramsay (Newton), Phyllis Rittner (Watertown), Ellen Davis Sullivan (Andover), and Lida McGirr (Concord).

Following the plays, playwrights Chris King and Kelly DuMar will moderate a discussion with the audience about the development of the plays as well as how the theatrical culture can be influenced to be more receptive to producing plays by women.
The event was funded by a grant from the International Centre for Women Playwrights

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Web links for more info:
www.wellesleysummertheatre.com
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/boston2007.html#march3
www.playwrightsplatform.org

from Ohio – The Limbo Project

The Limbo Project began last spring, after the Roman Catholic Church officially declared that Limbo, where the souls of unbaptized infants were thought to spend eternity, has never existed.

Members of the International Centre for Women Playwrights were invited to submit short plays that dealt with Limbo which the writers were invited to define in any way they chose for production and the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, which includes the International Centres archives in its collections (along with manuscripts of several hundred plays by ICWP members), took over the project.

Other writers were invited to participate; there are now some sixty ten-minute plays in the project, all of which are being given staged readings in various locations over the next several months.

The project is dedicated to St. Gregory of Nazantius, who first articulated the idea of Limbo in the late 4th century of the common era, assuming that a divine being couldn’t possibly send unbaptized infants, all innocents, to eternal damnation as was Christian teaching.

Readings of Limbo Plays (in groups of five) have now taken place or are scheduled at Gallery 202 in Westerville, Ohio; at the Ohio State University’s Department of Theatre, Cleveland State University, Elizabethtown College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), and Ohio Dominican University in Columbus.

More information about the Limbo Play Project is available at http://limboplays.blogspot.com.

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