Women in the Spotlight at the 2021 Festival!
Longing Lasts Longer - Penny Arcade
As we prepare for our festival’s focus on censorship, we’ve come to realize that the root of censorship all too often has been silencing women.
Tennessee Williams, too, has been censored for articulating women’s desires. In Provincetown this year we set about to defy censorship with women speaking out, speaking up, and leading.
Many of our performances this year are directed by women. You’ll want to check out Williams’ Battle of Angels, directed by Jessica Burr. The uncensored text will be presented by Blessed Unrest, a subversive physical theater ensemble that has been creating award-winning original theatre in NYC and touring internationally for 20 years.
Williams’ The Demolition Downtown will be directed by Brenna Geffers of Philadelphia-based Die-Cast, a collective dedicated to breaking open the relationship between audience and art by creating work for unique non-theatrical spaces. In 2020, as part of the Festival’s satellite performances, Die-Cast performed The Demolition Downtown in a suburb of Atlantic City for an invited audience around a fire pit.
Our Festival production of The Witch, performed by an all-female cast under the direction of Megan Nussle, imagines a version of Thomas Middleton’s text performed by the women of the Mayflower on their first day off-ship, doing laundry and whiling away the drying time with the abomination of having women dress as men. And yes. There will be a maypole.
These are just a few of the many leadership roles women have at this year’s Festival. From acting and writing to teaching, directing and producing, women make the Festival complete.
This year’s Festival will be in-person in Provincetown, September 23 – 26. Festival passes and tickets to individual shows are available now. We look forward to seeing you there!