The mainstage shows of the 2013-2014 season included a revival of the LFL original CLASS OF '70 and regional premieres of both Catherine Filloux' LUZ and Annie Baker's BODY AWARENESS. In outreach, we began a new partnership with JCPS, through an ongoing professional development program, working with high school teachers to integrate drama tools into their teaching. In addition, we continued to develop new programming for our after school Drama Clubs, in-school residencies and summer programming.
We kicked off the season with CLASS OF '70, for which we initiated a partnership with Lincoln Performing Arts School. We performed the show in LPAS' brand new theatre and conducted drama residencies with their students. CLASS OF '70, first produced in 2004, was our 3rd original devised piece. It explored how college-age women's experiences and options were affected by the revolutionary late 1960s in the USA. The central characters participate in a Consciousness Raising Group organized by one of their professors, and are shown sharing, connecting, supporting one another, and sometimes coming into conflict.
Our March Women's History Month production was a regional premiere of Catherine Filloux' LUZ at the Henry Clay Theatre. This play exposes the global scale of gender-based violence and the collusion between human rights and corporate law practices. From Guatemala City to Haiti to the U.S., it follows Luz, Helene and Zia in their search for hope in the unlikeliest in-between places.
The season wrapped up with Annie Baker's BODY AWARENESS, our second regional premiere that season, performed in UofL's Thrust Theater. This play examines intimacy and self-expression within the context of a modern family - college professor Phyllis, her partner Joyce, Joyce's possibly autistic adult son Jared - and how they are affected by their houseguest Frank, known for his nude portraits of women.