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Street Cirque's BOUDICCA! Review, stirring classic story of Warrior Queen resonates in 2018.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/596528227409631/ http://dixonplace.org/performances/boudicca/ Street Cirque's BOUDICCA, Directed, Written & Choreographed by Lauren Elizabeth I didn't know anything about Boudiccas, but my friend said she knew a coder, who used the name. Now I know why. It is a code "for a woman fighting to have her voice heard. It's been centuries, but I can hear her call being revived. on this stage, in media, in our governments, women are demanding to be heard... Let's not wait another 2000 years to listen." (from Director's Note.) Program--The production opens 20 years after the initial Roman invasion of Britain, when Boudicca's husband the largest advocate for peace passes away. What was supposed to be a smooth transition quickly turns into a violent power grab by the Romans. Boudica, her daughters, neighboring tribes, are forced to act as they contemplate what future is worth living for.  Like an Opera, the story is an o

Trump's sidelined In Suzan-Lori Parks' wise & entertaining 100 Plays for the 1st Hundred Days

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Excerpt Day 63: March 23 FORMER RUSSIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, DENIS VORONENOV, WAS SHOT DEAD IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Jack Former Russian MP, Denis Voronenkov, an outspoken opponent of Vladimir Putin, was shot dead outside a hotel today. He had fled to Kiev in fear of his life and to help with inquiries into Russia's incursions into the Ukraine. The 45th I thought your plays were going to be about me? This doesn't have anything to do with me. Jill It will. Just wait. Trump's sidelined in Suzan-Lori Park's wise and entertaining 100 PLAYS for the FIRST HUNDRED DAYS (Theatre Communications Group. In this slim, 93 page book, we, the thinking public, are the main attraction, while Trump skirts the sidelines perplexed he's not the mainattraction. In this intelligent darkly funny book, people of good will with humanist values assumed to be universal, find themselves in dystopian land. Stunned like Alice, we identify this strange new place, trying to define the