Looking for Lilith Theatre Company is thrilled to announce
our 20th Anniversary season and kick off event!
Join us for a performance-based party in the open-air to celebrate our 20th Anniversary! LFL will welcome audiences to the C. Douglas Ramey Amphitheatre in historic Old Louisville’s Central Park for The Candle Burns On: 20 Years of Looking for Lilith, on September 18, 2021 at 5:00pm. LFL’s diverse 19-member ensemble will perform readings of excerpts from our “greatest hits” of the last two decades at this festive event. Audiences will hear from our founders, our newest ensemble members, and everyone in between! We invite our supporters and families to bring a blanket, chair and refreshments.
Our fall mainstage offering will intentionally explore the path between the virtual and live performance worlds. Throughout the 20-21 season, pairs of our ensemble members have conducted story circles and created digital responses to the experience that was 2020. These pairs are then handing their digital work off to a second pair of LFL artists, who are devising a live, interactive response to the short film. These 6 hybrid performances will premiere in a two-week run at The MeX Theater at The Kentucky Center in early November.
In January of 2022, we will unveil Mac’s World, a new Forum Theatre piece about bullying for 3rd to 5th graders, done in the same style as CHOICES: An Interactive Play on Cyberbullying and Suicide, which we currently offer for Middle and High Schools.
From February through May, From Bardstown to Broadway: The Suffrage Walking Tour, will be back, both in public performances and in field trip offerings for schools across Kentuckiana.
The centerpiece of our 20th anniversary season will be The Ancestry Project (working title), opening in April of 2022. For two decades, the heart of our work has been to “look for Lilith,” by seeking out and lifting up stories of marginalized peoples that have gone unheard. In this new work, we are unearthing and lifting up the stories of our own “Liliths”--the women-identified people throughout the generations whose life experiences and choices have brought us, as artists, to this moment. From an Okinawan survivor of WWII, to a child on the orphan trains of the 19th century, to the first black female State Representative in Georgia, we will tell our ancestor’s stories through movement, spoken word, and narrative realism in our time-tested Looking for Lilith style.
Throughout the season, our GirlSpeak and YouthSpeak programming with groups from Adelante Hispanic Achievers, Central High School, and Western Middle School for the Performing Arts, among others, will allow Louisville’s young people to share their own stories theatrically. The finale of our 20th Anniversary will be a public performance from our various GirlSpeak groups in the summer of 2022, at a professional theatre with high-quality production elements, as we lift up the voices of the future!
Simultaneously, our teaching artists will be active across JCPS, Archdiocese, and Louisville’s independent schools, using original devised theatre to teach performance tools, curriculum content areas, and social skills.
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company and Teatro Tercera Llamada present Karen Zacarias' Just Like Us, March 2019 at The MeX Theater at The Kentucky Center. Photo by Michael Taggart.
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company presents Eli Keel's' Note, June 2019 at The MeX Theater at The Kentucky Center. Photo by Holly Stone.