April 5, 2017
Rover Dramawerks Hosts 3rd Annual 365 Women a Year Festival
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For the third year in a row, Rover Dramawerks will hold its annual 365 Women a Year playwright festival, to be held April 6-15. Founded by Jesslynn Eisenberg Chamblee, the international playwriting coalition features plays about extraordinary women from the past and present.
"History is usually from a male standpoint, so you don't hear about the amazing women's stories," said Carol Rice, executive director of Dramawerks, who said she got involved with 365 Women because she thought it sounded like a fascinating idea to have plays about women from history.
Rice will be showing her original show, "No Limits," about three women who made baseball history. The story centers around Mo'ne Davis, Jackie Miller and Effa Manley having a chat in the locker room after Davis' historic no-hitter.
In 2014, Mo'ne Davis made history as the first African-American girl to compete in the Little League World Series and pitch a shutout no-hitter. Jackie Mitchell was a minor league pitcher from the 1920s who famously struck out Hall of Famers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig during an exhibition game.
And Effa Manley was the only women in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, co-owned the Newark Eagles from 1935 to 1948. Manley devoted her life to the Negro Baseball League.
The festival will features works from playwrights local to Dallas, and from around the country.
Performances:
"The Anesthetic Was Psalms" by Nancy Gall-Clayton (Jeffersonville, IN)
"Julia Tuttle: The Mother of Miami" by Marj O'Neill-Butler (Miami Beach, FL)
"The Deaths of Anna May Wong" by Anne V. McGravie (Chicago, IL)
"Return to Sender: The Minnie Cox Story" by Rita Anderson (Austin, TX)
"Linda" by Diana Burbano (Costa Mesa, CA)
"Herstorical Pen-Pals" by Caroline Turner Cole (Dallas, TX)
"Curtain Rods" by J. Sanders Nelson (Dallas, TX)
"No Limits" by Carol M. Rice (Plano, TX)
"Little Swan" by Allie Costa (Los Angeles, CA)
"The Mysterious Affair at the Christies" by Jennifer O'Grady (Pelham, NY)
"Joan" by Susan Shafer (New York, NY)
"Hitler's Whore" by Jim Colgan (Wallingford, KY)
Rover Dramawerks 365 Women a Year festival will be held April 6-15, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m. at Rover Dramawerks, 221 W. Parker Rd., Ste. 580 in Plano, Texas. Tickets are $14. For information or tickets, visit www.roverdramawerks.com.
