2016-2017 Season

The season began with a stunning production of Karen Zacarias' Legacy of Light at the Henry Clay Theatre. In this play, two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love, motherhood, family, art and science in this contemporary comedy. It juxtaposes the story of Émilie du Châtelet, a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great 18th-century philosopher Voltaire, who became unexpectedly pregnant at 42, and that of a 21st-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child. For Women's History Month, LFL remounted Alice in Black and White by Robin Rice at the MeX Theater at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, hot on the heels of their successful sold-out run Off-Broadway at NYC's 59E59 Theaters. Shannon, Trina and Jen traveled to Guatemala that Spring to celebrate the life of Alicia Moscoso Mendez, long-time original founding member of the Colectivo Teatral Historias de Fe, who had recently passed away. Much of the energy of the season was focused on preparing for their ambitious 15th anniversary festival - UnHeard : Outloud, during they performed many plays, including a revival of Crossing Mountains, a new play by Nancy Gall-Clayton, I'm Wearing My Own Clothes, a Ben Gierhart play about consent called Look Me In the Eye, a reading of a play about immigration experiences, created by their EACM Latina women's group, various interactive workshops, and a premiere of LFL's newest original play - Defining Infinity.