The final production of the season was a unique repertory program to celebrate LFL’s tenth anniversary: Looking Forward, Looking Back. The centerpiece of this event was Ten Years/Seven Stories, which featured short vignettes of each of the first seven original productions created by LFL. Also at this event, LFL’s newest original script, Becoming Mothers, was […]
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2009-2010 Season
LFL started the season with the premiere of their ambitious timely new touring show CHOICES: an interactive play on cyberbullying and suicide. This season, they also remounted Crossing Mountains for Louisville audiences and toured it again to the Hindman Settlement School and to Alice Lloyd College. LFL hosted another cross-cultural experience with women from Guatemala […]
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Strangers/Extranjeras is a bilingual play about an inspiring friendship between a young optimistic U.S. volunteer and her generous Mayan Guatemalan host-mother. It premiered at The Rudyard Kipling in spring of 2009. It was based on the experiences of Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Thalman-Kepler and company member Charity Thompson Egland, who met while volunteering through the YAV […]
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CHOICES: an interactive play on cyberbullying and suicide began touring in schools in 2010. Based on real-life stories, this play follows the story of Hannah, a victim of cyberbullying. CHOICES uses the model of Forum Theatre from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, to empower the audience to stop the action, talk about the problems, […]
Continue readingFabric, Flames, and Fervor
March 25th saw the premiere of Fabric, Flames and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle on the 98th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. This production was in preparation for a potential NYC run for the commemoration of the centennial of this tragedy.
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