2020-2021 Season

LFL really learned to pivot with more creativity than ever before as the pandemic continued. Along with developing online live offerings for our educational and outreach programming, we tried out hand at a limited Youtube series, a virtual theatre experience, and a outdoor diving and walking tour of scenes.  The first of these was based on our previously named Kentucky Suffrage Project, which shifted into From Bardstown to Broadway: The Road to Votes for Women, an original Youtube series of scenes exploring local suffragists and their contributions to the fight for women's suffrage.  Next was a reworked version of Erin Fitzgerald's play with music, Good Grief, made into a pre-recorded virtual theatre piece. Just as so many people were meeting online through Zoom during that time, they put their characters, who were part of an irreverent and unconventional grief support group, into Zoom rooms for their meetings as well. As the global community lived into and through that bizarre season of pandemic and lockdown, grief became more present, and this hilarious and touching story became more relevant than ever. Finally, as things started to open up a bit more in the near the middle of 2021 and outdoor performances started to spring up as an alternative to indoor performances, LFL developed the very well-received From Bardstown to Broadway: Suffrage Driving and Walking Tour. In this tour, they shared scenes about local suffragists that were staged near, or sometimes directly in front of, the places that were the homes and/or workplaces of these same women.