2023 SEASON
Fighting Words Festival 2023
SUMMER 2023
JUNE 17-25, 2023
Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
FREE
Tickets available Thursday, June 1
All performances will take place at The Edge Off Broadway. (The Edge Theater’s black box), 1133 W. Catalpa with a Q+A session after each reading. Live streaming is available for the Saturday, June 24th and 25 readings at BabesWithBlades.org.
The Fighting Words Festival is Babes With Blades’s script development program and in 2023 is expanded to two weekends. Each season, three scripts are chosen for development and read three times; first within the company, then with a small group of invited guests and finally as part of this annual festival that includes all three plays.
In 2023, the scripts include The Gatekeepers by Jillian Leff (she/her); Sin Agua by Desi Moreno-Penson (she/her) and Rich B*tch by Rachel Lynett (she/they).
Discussions after each reading provide feedback for the playwrights, assisting them in developing their scripts further. Fighting Words’ plays have been given full productions by the company as with Cat McKay’s Plaid As Hell from the 2020 Fighting Words Festival that was produced by BWBTC during its 2021 – 2022 season.
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
FALL 2023
Written by John Webster
Directed by BWBTC Artistic Director Hayley Rice (she/her/hers)
Fight Direction TBA
Previews: Sept. 9, 10 (3pm), 14, 15, 2023
Opening: September 16, 2023 (8pm)
Regular Run: Thursdays – Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm
Closing: October 21, 2023
Select performances will be available for live streaming.
All performances will be held at The Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard
Ticket Price: $28 – $35
Tickets on sale: Monday, August 21
When the widowed Duchess of Malfi chooses to love again, honestly and defiantly, the men in her family do everything in their power to break those that would dare to flout the unspoken rules of a “traditional” society.