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SUMMARY:2021 - Fighting Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Three new scripts that utilize stage combat to tell stories of underrepresented communities and invite audiences to contribute to the plays’ development! \nThe fourth annual Fighting Words Festival (live and streamed online)! \nBWBTC’s 2019-21 season concludes with the Fighting Words Festival\, held on Saturday\, Nov. 13 and Sunday\, Nov. 14\, 2021 at The Factory Theater\, 1623 W. Howard Street in the Rogers Park neighborhood\, as well as streaming online. The Festival\, which is free and open to the public is available online and in person\, features readings of three scripts in the development process. After each reading the audience has an opportunity to provide feedback for the playwright. \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! And a talkback following each reading. \n\n\nCLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FIGHTING WORDS FESTIVAL PROGRAM\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE FWF – TALKBACK RESPONSE FORM\n \nFIGHTING WORDS 2021 SELECTIONS:\n\nSaturday\, November 13\, 2021 – 3:30pm\nPhantom Queens\nby Jessica Johnson \n\nDirected by Angela Forshee\nFight Choreography by Nicky Jasper \n\n\nIris is dragged on a camping trip by her friends in an effort to cheer her up after the loss of her father\, but the whole group ends up face-to-face with death when a storm sends them to a nearby lodge and into the hands of a suspicious group of locals. \n\n\nRSVP -PHANTOM QUEENS (Live)\n\nRSVP – PHANTOM QUEENS (Virtual)\n  \n\nSaturday\, November 13\, 2021 – 7:30pm\nChild’s Play\nby Frank Garland \n \nDirected by Hayley Rice*\nFight Choreography by Kate Lass \n\nA young mother named Alice breaks into the deadly playful kingdom of the fairies to get her child back. But fairy land is only as dangerous as what you bring with you. Dreams come alive there\, and Alice has been having some bad dreams. (WARNING: This script contains descriptions of physical abuse\, including abuse of a child.)\n\nRSVP -CHILD’S PLAY (Live)\n\nRSVP – CHILD’S PLAY (Virtual)\n  \n\nSunday\, November 14\, 2021 – 3:30pm\nThe Mark\nby Jillian Leff* \n \nDirected by Morgan Manasa*\nFight Choreography by Polley Cooney \n\nIn a dystopian\, classist society\, a young Laborer named Raina is given an unexpected chance to join The Army. As she starts to acclimate to her new position and higher standing in society\, a resistance is brewing among The Laborers. An assassination attempt upends Raina’s life as she becomes caught in the middle of the war between the two classes\, as well as her own battle of discovering who and what she believes in.\n\nRSVP -THE MARK (Live)\n\n\nRSVP – THE MARK (Virtual)\n\n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \n\nABOUT JESSICA JOHNSON\, PLAYWRIGHT OF Phantom Queens\n \nJessica Johnson (she/her/hers) is a writer\, dog mom and nerd living in the great city of Chicago. Johnson has written articles\, stories\, poems\, plays\, sketches\, TV scripts and screenplays. She has written about film\, television and the web for Time Out Chicago\, Time Out New York and RogerEbert.com\, as well as appearing on “The Rotten Tomatoes Show.” She also created and co-starred in the web series “2 Redheads.” When not writing and paying the bills\, Johnson enjoys walking her dog Bodhi\, reading comics\, watching lots of TV and movies and volunteering at the dog rescue One Tail at at Time. http://historyofjess.com\nABOUT FRANK GARLAND\, PLAYWRIGHT OF Child’s Play\n \nFrank Garland (he/his/his) is overjoyed to be working with the Babes. His plays have been produced in Seattle\, Cambridge\, Los Angeles and New York. He is a Young Playwrights Inc. award winner and a two time winner of the Blank Theater Young Playwrights Festival. He lives in Seattle with his hands and his feet.\nABOUT JILLIAN LEFF\, PLAYWRIGHT OF The Mark\n\nJillian Leff (she/her/hers) is a Chicago based playwright and actor. In the city\, her plays have been produced by The New Colony (Small World – co-written with Joe Lino)\, The Cuckoo’s Theater Project (Missed Opportunities) and The Right Brain Project ((Non)Fiction)\, while her short plays have been produced by Broken Nose Theatre (All I Really Want)\, Random Acts Chicago (Ms. Chapman)\, Ghostlight Ensemble (Forgetting)\, Edge Theatre at Fight Night (The Mother Load) and Clock Productions (Real Talk). She has a BFA in Acting from Ball State University\, and is an ensemble member with Babes With Blades Theatre Company.\nhttps://newplayexchange.org/users/21210/jillian-leff\nABOUT THE FIGHTING WORDS FESTIVAL\nFighting Words emerged from the very clear need to increase the canon of fighting roles for folks of marginalized genders. By establishing a development series for new works\, BWBTC not only supports the creation of scripts that meet our mission and that we can produce\, but scripts that can go beyond Chicago to increase the visibility of a wide variety of fierce folks on stage. \nEach year since 2005\, BWBTC selects three scripts for development that have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit its mission. Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently Women of 4G\, 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile\, Promise of a Rose Garden (Jeff Recommended\,) Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates and The Lady Demands Satisfaction (Jeff Recommended). \nEach 2020-21 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests. BWBTC is presenting the final reading of each script in a festival format: The Fighting Words Festival. \n  \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/2021-fighting-words-festival/
LOCATION:The Factory Theater\, 1623 W Howard Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60626
CATEGORIES:2021,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:Writing Violence and Intimacy for the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Join writers and designers from Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s ensemble to learn how to best write violence and intimacy for the stage. Lead by playwrights Jillian Leff and Jennifer L. Mickelson\, and Violence & Intimacy designers Samantha Kaufman & Maureen Yasko\, this 1 night workshop will provide tips on how to create compelling action for the stage that is satisfying to the artists performing your play\, as well as the audience watching it. \nThis free\, online workshop is one night only\, Monday\, May 24th at 7:30pm CST \nReserve your slot now at artistic@babeswithblades.org \n  \n Photos by Joe Mazza/BraveLux \n  \nBios: \nSamantha Kaufman (she/her/hers) is an actor and movement director\, specializing in fight direction and intimacy direction.. A Jeff Nominated Fight Choreographer. A Babes with Blades Theatre Ensemble Member. Samantha is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and an Intermediate Actor Combatant with Fight Directors Canada. Samantha has also trained and taught with Deutschland Stage Combat. Samantha is a certified Intimacy Director with both Intimacy Directors and Coordinators\, as well as Intimacy Directors International. Regionally\, Samantha has worked with theatres such as Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis\, and Cleveland Play House. In Chicago\, she has worked with theatres such as Lookingglass Theatre\, Steep Theatre\, Babes with Blades Theatre Company\, and Idle Muse. Samantha has an MFA from Florida Atlantic University. SamanthaJKaufman.com \n  \nJillian Leff is a Chicago based playwright and actor. In the city\, her plays have been produced by The New Colony (Small World – co-written with Joe Lino – 2020 Jeff Award Nominee for New Work) The Cuckoo’s Theater Project (Missed Opportunities)\, and The Right Brain Project ((Non)Fiction)\, while her short plays have been produced by Broken Nose Theatre (All I Really Want)\, Random Acts Chicago (Ms. Chapman)\, Ghostlight Ensemble (Forgetting)\, The Edge Theater at Fight Night (The Mother Load) and Clock Productions (Real Talk). Real Talk was a finalist for the 2015 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting\, is published in the City Theatre Anthology 2015\, and has been produced in Indiana\, Florida\, and Illinois. She has a BFA in Acting from Ball State University\, is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors\, and an Ensemble Member with Babes With Blades Theatre Company. \n  \nJennifer L. Mickelson is the BWBTC Literary Manager and has worked in various capacities including (but not limited to) actor\, intimacy designer\, and playwright. She has been a company member since 2009 and in that time has participated in a LOT of script development. Jen has designed intimacy for Idle Muse (Girl Found\, Equivocation)\, Promethean Theatre Ensemble (BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)\, Arcadia)\, and Otherworld (Medusa Undone). Her plays are The Last Daughter of Oedipus (produced by BWBTC in 2010)\, Rites and Sacrifices (Idle Muse\, 2014)\, and Patchwork Drifter (BWBTC\, 2015). She was last seen onstage with Promethean in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and as a last-minute understudy in BWBTC’s Othello. She is an SAFD Actor-Combatant and an alum of Illinois State University. \n  \nMaureen Yasko is an ensemble member of BWBTC where she has appeared in Julius Caesar\, Bo Thomas…\, L’Imbecile\, Titus Andronicus\, and The Promise of a Rose Garden. She Fight Directed Women of 4G\, Witch Slap! and assisted with the fights in Titus. Maureen is Resident Intimacy Director/Associate Fight Director of Midsommer Flight\, a Company Member with A Crew of Patches\, and a Conspirator. She also holds the title of Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD\, continues to seek intimacy training with IDI\, and holds a BA in Theatre\, Music Minor from AASU in Savannah\, GA. When not in a theatre\, you’ll find her in the studio as a Certified Yoga Instructor.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/writing-violence-and-intimacy-for-the-stage-online-event/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:2021,Play Development,Workshops,Writing
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SUMMARY:2020 FWF - Scum
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that dismantle the patriarchy\, elevate underrepresented voices and (of course) use stage combat!\nThe third annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2019-20 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the 2020 Festival. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nTICKETS Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2019-2020 SELECTION: \n\nSunday\, March 1\, 2020 – 4:00pm \nScum \nby Mia Vera \nDirector: Kathrynne Wolf*\nFight Choreography: Jillian Leff* \n\n\nInspired by Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto\, three people with wildly different agendas take up art\, activism and potentially arms as they ponder how to dismantle the patriarchy (and cope with a break-up).\n\n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/2020-fwf-scum/
LOCATION:Stage773\, 1225 W Belmont Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60657
CATEGORIES:2020,Community,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:2020 FWF - Plaid As Hell
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that dismantle the patriarchy\, elevate underrepresented voices and (of course) use stage combat!\nThe third annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2019-20 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the 2020 Festival. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nTICKETS Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2019-2020 SELECTION: \n\nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020 – 7:30pm \nPlaid As Hell \nby Cat McKay \nDirector: Christina Casano\nFight Choreography: Maureen Yasko*\n\n\nCass’s annual camping trip is off to a rough start with her best friend Emilie sniping at Cass’s new girlfriend Jess. The serial killer loose in the woods isn’t helping matters\, either.\n\n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/2020-fwf-plaid-as-hell/
LOCATION:Stage773\, 1225 W Belmont Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60657
CATEGORIES:2020,Community,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:2020 FWF - Nina The Hellhound
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that dismantle the patriarchy\, elevate underrepresented voices and (of course) use stage combat!\nThe third annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2019-20 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the 2020 Festival. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nTICKETS Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2019-2020 SELECTION: \n\nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020 – 4:00pm \nNina The Hellhound \nby Sander Gusinow \nDirector: Angie Forshee\nFight Choreography: Polley Cooney \n\n\nA sleepy town in 1620’s England gets a taste of modernity when gifted fencer Nina Broach begins fighting duels on behalf of mistreated women everywhere.  Appalled by the town”s new liberty\, a vainglorious lord becomes obsessed with Nina’s destruction\, and blackmails a legendary war hero in hopes of bringing her down. \nTo save her city\, her sister\, and herself\, Nina must not only fight for her life\, but confront\, and forgive\, the painful compromises her mother made to see her reach her potential. \nFeaturing ghosts\, sword fights\, romance\, and a goth nun. \n\n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/2020-fwf-nina-the-hellhound/
LOCATION:Stage773\, 1225 W Belmont Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60657
CATEGORIES:2020,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:2020 - Fighting Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that dismantle the patriarchy\, elevate underrepresented voices and (of course) use stage combat!\nThe third annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2019-20 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the 2020 Festival. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nTICKETS Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2019-2020 SELECTIONS: \n\nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020 – 4:00pm \nNina The Hellhound \nby Sander Gusinow \nDirector: Angie Forshee\nFight Choreography: Polley Cooney \n\n\nA sleepy town in 1620’s England gets a taste of modernity when gifted fencer Nina Broach begins fighting duels on behalf of mistreated women everywhere.Appalled by the town”s new liberty\, a vainglorious lord becomes obsessed with Nina’s destruction\, and blackmails a legendary war hero in hopes of bringing her down. \nTo save her city\, her sister\, and herself\, Nina must not only fight for her life\, but confront\, and forgive\, the painful compromises her mother made to see her reach her potential. \nFeaturing ghosts\, sword fights\, romance\, and a goth nun. \n\n  \n\nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020 – 7:30pm \nPlaid As Hell \nby Cat McKay \nDirector: Christina Casano\nFight Choreography: Maureen Yasko* \n\nCass’s annual camping trip is off to a rough start with her best friend Emilie sniping at Cass’s new girlfriend Jess. The serial killer loose in the woods isn’t helping matters\, either.\n  \n\nSunday\, March 1\, 2020 – 4:00pm \nScum \nby Mia Vera \nDirector: Kathrynne Wolf*\nFight Choreography: Jillian Leff* \n\nInspired by Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto\, three people with wildly different agendas take up art\, activism and potentially arms as they ponder how to dismantle the patriarchy (and cope with a break-up).\n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/2020-fighting-words-festival/
LOCATION:Stage773\, 1225 W Belmont Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60657
CATEGORIES:2020,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:Jenga - FWF 2019 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that place women at the center of the story and the action!\nThe second annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2018-19 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the Festival in June 2019. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nRSVP Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2018-2019 SELECTION: \nSunday\, June 2\, 2019 – 3:00pm \nJenga \nby Deborah Yarchun \nDirector:Alexis Randolph*\nFight Choreography: Maureen Yasko* \nYelena returns to her childhood home for the first time in twelve years only to discover that her older sister Simone has transformed it into a “Burning Man-inspired” (and booby-trapped) game-room of fairy wings and glitter. As monstrous noises filter in from an offstage room\, the two sisters battle in a series of escalating games over whether or not to finally confront a violent incident from their past. \n  \n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/jenga-fwf-2019/
LOCATION:Otherworld Theatre Company\, 3914 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613
CATEGORIES:2019,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:Summer Nights and Fireflies - FWF 2019 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that place women at the center of the story and the action!\nThe second annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2018-19 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the Festival in June 2019. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nRSVP Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2018-2019 SELECTION: \n  \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm \nSummer Nights and Fireflies \nby Bianca Sams \nDirector: Kanomé Jones\nFight Choreography: Chloe Baldwin* \nSummer Nights and Fireflies\, follows Zandra Richards\, the owner of a small eastern Texas bar which has been in her family for generations. On the surface Zandra’s finally moving forward in life\, but secretly everything is falling apart at the seams. Her bar is struggling financially\, younger brother Tyrone is involved in a tumultuous relationship and her boyfriend Sean wants more from her than she’s capable of giving. To make matters worse\, Zandra is literally haunted by ghosts from her past which force her to confront a lifetime of abuse that she’d rather leave dead and buried. Summer Nights and Fireflies explores issues of modern femininity\, the cycle of violence\, and the power of self love.\n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/summer-nights-and-fireflies-fwf-2019/
LOCATION:Otherworld Theatre Company\, 3914 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613
CATEGORIES:2019,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:Life In A Sandcastle - FWF 2019 Reading
DESCRIPTION:The second annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2018-19 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the Festival in June 2019. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nRSVP Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2018-2019 SELECTIONS: \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2019 – 3:00pm \nLife In A Sandcastle \nby Jayme McGhan \nDirector: Kelsey Kovacevich*\nFight Choreography: Kim Fukawa* \nTwo getaway weekends on the shore of Lake Michigan collide when childhood friends and family from separate worlds find themselves doing battle for the same beachside fire pit. Political persuasions\, economic privilege\, religious beliefs\, regional proclivities\, educational barriers\, and a mess of cheap beer\, expensive wine\, and dill pickles chips quickly become both shields and weapons as the women do battle for the sandy square footage they feel is rightly theirs. Life in a Sandcastle is a hilarious and touching exploration of the fates that bring us together and the tax brackets that keep us apart.\n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/life-in-a-sandcastle-fwf-2019/
LOCATION:Otherworld Theatre Company\, 3914 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613
CATEGORIES:2019,Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:June\, 2019 - Fighting Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that place women at the center of the story and the action!\nThe second annual Fighting Words Festival! \nEach year BWBTC selects three scripts for development.  Each must have the potential to grow into the kinds of plays that fit BWBTC’s mission.  Several of the Fighting Words selections have been seen as full productions with BWBTC\, as well as other theatre companies: most recently 180 Degree Rule\, Patchwork Drifter\, L’Imbecile and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates. \nEach 2018-19 script has undergone two reading-and-feedback sessions with the ensemble and invited guests prior to being introduced to the public (and given the BWBTC treatment of including one staged fight) at the Festival in June 2019. \n  \nTickets: FREE ADMISSION! Refreshments and a talkback follow each reading. \nRSVP Here \n  \nFIGHTING WORDS 2018-2019 SELECTIONS: \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2019 – 3:00pm \nLife In A Sandcastle \nby Jayme McGhan \nDirector: Kelsey Kovacevich*\nFight Choreography: Kim Fukawa* \nTwo getaway weekends on the shore of Lake Michigan collide when childhood friends and family from separate worlds find themselves doing battle for the same beachside fire pit. Political persuasions\, economic privilege\, religious beliefs\, regional proclivities\, educational barriers\, and a mess of cheap beer\, expensive wine\, and dill pickles chips quickly become both shields and weapons as the women do battle for the sandy square footage they feel is rightly theirs. Life in a Sandcastle is a hilarious and touching exploration of the fates that bring us together and the tax brackets that keep us apart. \n  \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm \nSummer Nights and Fireflies \nby Bianca Sams \nDirector: Kanomé Jones\nFight Choreography: Chloe Baldwin* \nSummer Nights and Fireflies\, follows Zandra Richards\, the owner of a small eastern Texas bar which has been in her family for generations. On the surface Zandra’s finally moving forward in life\, but secretly everything is falling apart at the seams. Her bar is struggling financially\, younger brother Tyrone is involved in a tumultuous relationship and her boyfriend Sean wants more from her than she’s capable of giving. To make matters worse\, Zandra is literally haunted by ghosts from her past which force her to confront a lifetime of abuse that she’d rather leave dead and buried. Summer Nights and Fireflies explores issues of modern femininity\, the cycle of violence\, and the power of self love. \n  \nSunday\, June 2\, 2019 – 3:00pm \nJenga \nby Deborah Yarchun \nDirector: Alexis Randolph*\nFight Choreography: Maureen Yasko* \nYelena returns to her childhood home for the first time in twelve years only to discover that her older sister Simone has transformed it into a “Burning Man-inspired” (and booby-trapped) game-room of fairy wings and glitter. As monstrous noises filter in from an offstage room\, the two sisters battle in a series of escalating games over whether or not to finally confront a violent incident from their past. \n  \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/june-2019-fighting-words-festival/
LOCATION:Otherworld Theatre Company\, 3914 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613
CATEGORIES:Community,Fighting Words,Outreach,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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SUMMARY:May\, 2018: Fighting Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Three new works that place women at the center of the story and the action!\nThe first annual Fighting Words Festival showcases three developing scripts via readings\, all reflecting how women define themselves and their places in their worlds – including the English countryside\, medieval Scotland and the “final frontier.” \n  \nSaturday 5/19:\n12:00pm – The Lady Demands Satisfaction\n2:30pm – Women of 4G \n  \nSunday 5/20:\n7:00pm – The Witches of Birnam \nFIGHTING WORDS 2017-2018 SELECTIONS:\n  \nThe Lady Demands Satisfaction \nby Arthur M. Jolly \nThe Lady Demands Satisfaction is the winner of Joining Sword & Pen 2017-18\, BWBTC’s international playwriting competition. When a young maiden learns she must defend her inheritance in a duel\, she struggles with a conniving suitor\, a servant girl posing as a German fencing master who doesn’t speak English\, and her renowned aunt – the finest blade anywhere – to save her house and lands. \nDirector: Morgan Manasa*\nViolence Designer: Samantha Kaufman* \n  \nWomen of 4G  \nby Amy Tofte \nSeventy-five years in the future\, an all-female crew and their male captain depart on what appears to be a routine mission to Mars until the captain is murdered and the real mission comes to light. Part murder mystery\, part space thriller\, Women of 4G uses a science fiction world to ask questions about women in power as well as their leadership\, responsibility and\, ultimately\, sacrifice. \nDirector: Lisa Herceg*\nViolence Designer: Maureen Yasko* \n  \nThe Witches of Birnam  \nby Sara Murdock \nA new king is rising to the cursed throne of Scotland\, doomed\, like his predecessors\, to lose his soul. Suthen\, Edith and Leinster\, powerful women with a legacy of secrets\, fight to break the curse and save their people from the coming storm. Their only hope lies in gaining the trust of Gruoch\, the future queen. With their unimaginable power at her fingertips\, Gruoch can be Scotland’s salvation or its doom. \nAn exploration of ambition and corruption\, honor and betrayal\, madness and redemption\, The Witches of Birnam is intertwined with William Shakespeare’s Macbeth\, delving into the motivations and struggles of Lady Macbeth and the enigmatic witches. It is the tale of the battle for a country\, told through the legacy of its queens. \nDirector: Andi Dymond\nViolence Designer: Chloe Baldwin* \n* Denotes BWBTC ensemble member \nLearn more about Fighting Words or submit your own script.
URL:https://babeswithblades.org/event/fighting-words-festival-2018/
LOCATION:Strawdog Theatre\, 1802 W Berenice Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613
CATEGORIES:Fighting Words,Performances,Play Development,Readings
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