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WOMEN-AT-ARMS 2002
The first annual Women-at-Arms Festival was
held at Theater for the New City, NYC from the
3rd - 5th October, 2002 and included hands-on
stage combat workshops, lectures on historical
women warriors, the screening of two original
short films, a panel discussion on the strength
of women in theatre today, and the performance
of five original short plays incorporating mask,
mime, puppetry and a rich variety of swordplay
that celebrated the historical woman warrior
and the modern action heroine.
Festival Director ......................................................................
Peter Hilton
Assistant Director ..............................................................
Amanda Barron
Lighting Design ...............................................................
Diana D. Fairchild
Costume Design ............................................. Peter Hilton
& Carrie Brewer
Stage Manager .................................................................
Denise R. Zeiler
Assistant Stage Managers ................... Stefanie E. Frame & Lorraine
Stobbe
Producers ................................... Carrie Brewer, Bevin Kaye
& Peter Hilton
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Teetotum by CARYN E. GIBSON |
On
28th November 1720, the British Admiralty in Jamaica, captured the pirates,
Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and brought them to trial. They were found guilty
and sentenced to hang, but when they “pleaded their bellies”
and were found to be pregnant, the condemned pirates were returned to prison.
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THE SIGN IN THE SCARLET PRISON
by James Armstrong
Cast
Scarlet .............................. Laura Napoli
Grey ............................. Barbara Brandt
Fight Team
Fight Director ................... Carrie Brewer
Assist. FD .................... Carey Van Driest |
The
popular thought that a female body is physically incapable of fighting mirrors
the "medical wisdom” that prevented women from running the marathon
for the Olympic games until Los Angeles 1984. But history references weaponry
that was “fashioned for women”, proving that women were then
- as they still are - capable of combat. |
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Death Song by TERRY KROENUNG |
The word Amazon is usually derived
from a and mazon, meaning “without breast” in Greek, as it
was said they scared away one breast in order to facilitate shooting.
A more likely explanation is that the word comes from the Armenian, meaning
“Moon-women”. For evidence read Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball’s
book, WARRIOR WOMEN. |
| The Festival also included On
the Backs of Fishes by CRYSTAL SKILLMAN and A Silent
Exchange by PETER HILTON |
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