Friday, January 12, 2018
Women's Voices Theater Festival: 2 months to see 24 plays by women
DC Theatre Scene: Beginning this month, the second Women’s Voices Theater Festival will highlight 24 plays (13 world premieres and 11 American or regional premieres) produced in the greater Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas over a two month period. Two local playwrights will bookend the festival. Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl in Africa opened at Mosaic Theater January 4th. Nu Sass’s production of Hope Villanueva’s The Veils, at Anacostia Arts Center, closes March 4th.
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This festival seems like a very exciting opportunity for talented female playwrights to be able to exhibit their fabulous work. It is so exciting to see that women are being given their fair due to showcase their incredible artistic talent in major theater locations. What invigorating event that allows the residents of Washington DC in the Baltimore area to be able to experience and take in the beautiful plays written by these incredible women. Hopefully in the future other cities will take a cue from this festival in Washington DC and allow women a platform for them to showcase plays. Demonstrating to everyone that women have the power to be creative will go along way in reducing gender stereotypes, and hopefully inspiring young women to pursue artistic careers of their own in the theater, in environments less hampered by the rampant and pervasive sexual assault than that occurs in the Hollywood film industry.
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