This season saw a STAGED READING SERIES, the creation and production of our 2nd original play WHAT MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED, and slowly expanding educational and community outreach work. In the early years of LFL, the vast majority of our energy as a company was focused on devising original plays, while also working and/or studying full-time in New York City. Therefore, we tended to premiere one new LFL play per year. While working on creating our next play, we did a STAGED READING SERIES during which we presented KEELY AND DU by Jane Martin and VOICES by Susan Griffin in the Fall of 2002.
For this second original play, we researched and then devised a show about the experiences of U.S. women during World War II. We interviewed family members and friends, we read books and articles, we watched documentaries and we read old letters. Then we started transforming this research into our 2nd collaboratively created original play. From that emerged the first 5 person version of WHAT MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED, which we premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Source before then creating a 3 person version that we toured to Kentucky and Wisconsin. Also, as individuals, though representing LFL, we continued to do in-school residencies back in Kentucky, at places such as the summer school programs for students with dyslexia and other learning differences, like the James Still Learning Center at The Hindman Settlement School and The dePaul School in Louisville, KY.