...an amazing experience, a passionate performance of theatre at its best. It makes us cry, laugh, and remember what we did not even know we knew.
Riane Eisler
The Chalice and the Blade

Three actresses bring to the stage sixteen women from history to speak their lives. Their dramatic stories challenge us to find new lenses through which to view the world around us. Join them on a search for what has been lost and for what can be recovered.

Your play was the highlight of our Women's History Month! Not only did the play bring a theatrical dimension to our events, but it introduced a cross-cultural historical exploration of the role of women and the social understanding of the divine.
Kathryn M. Feltey, Ph.D.
University of Akron

Deb Lemire as
Paula The Christian
at Ephesus,
431 AD
"So they told us we could keep Diana, but her real name was Mary and we were to call her that."

Meet Rachel from the Old Testament, who risks her life to hold on to her right to keep a piece of her matrilineal heritage so her children will know their ancestors. Lydia from 1000 BC who remembers a painful story of her father's willingness to sacrifice her life in exchange for the life of a Levite priest.

You will be captured by the delightful musings of Io the Greek after attending the play The Eumenides by Aeschylus and the wry wit of the witch waiting for the stake in 1432.

Christine Grisez as
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
1870

"If I could not speak and declare my mind, I would die of a women's rights convulsion!"

Overwhelming is the conflict Emma Smith, wife of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, struggles with; and the gratitude of a woman freed from slavery by Mother Ann Lee the founder of the Shaker movement.

And so they go on. Each woman fighting in her own way for the right of equal value and importance, encouraging us to do the same.

Lynette Brown as
Bruen the Paleolithic,
20,000 BC

"You have lost Mother! I worry for you now. Mother -- is all!"