Revolutions Theater Festival
I missed the Wau Wau Sisters from New York City on Wednesday, because I went to a Coalition planning meeting for the March 15 Peace March, on the anniversary of the U.S. entry into Iraq. However, last night I went to see Lauren Weedman, from Los Angeles, in her performance piece"Bust". She's a former correspondent of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, reporting from a new location, the LA County penal system. She became a volunteer for Beyond Bars, a prisoner advocacy organization. Scenes from the prison and her interviews with the three women who were assigned to her are interspersed with auditions for her paying acting jobs and telephone calls with the editor of Glamor Magazine about the publication of a story of one of her most personal life moments. Lauren takes on the persona of each person, including the jail guards. This humorous but serious piece was awareded "Best of the Arts 2006 by Seattle Times and Seattle Magazine. After the event, a reception in the lobby was sponsored by Copy Rite and Ribs, a restaurant in Cedar Crest, in the East Mountains. There was roast beef with barbeque sauce, sliced ham and turkey, crudites, stuffed mushrooms, and punch and cookies. More events of the festival in the next three weeks.
Labels: theater, women in prison
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