SkyPilot Theatre Company Heralds The #MeToo Movement With Unique New Show
SkyPilot Theatre is showing its support of the #MeToo movement with The #MeToo Project, a workshop performance that will explore the historical conditioning of how sexual harassment and violence occurs and the ongoing cycle that continues to push such behavior in all kinds of people and situations. The show will be on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 8:30pm at River Rock Lounge 12825 Ventura Blvd, Studio City.
Directed by SkyPilot Artistic Director James Carey, The #MeToo Project features five actors - Sandi Milne, LeJon Lejon, Laura Walker, Anthony Backman, and Rosemary Thomas - who will take quotes from actual victims, survivors, defendants, families and employees who have either been touched by or are guilty of sexual deviance, harassment and assault to show how everyone, no matter how famous or powerful, can be touched, hurt, frightened, diminished and belittled when they are treated with disregard and humiliation. Many of the quotes come from famous people, but the performance will strive to show that this movement is for people from all walks of life, male and female alike.
"Change is in the air," says Carey. "There is hope. There are very strong people, women and men both, who are standing up and saying 'no more.' People who are taking their lives back and pointing out the perpetrators by name and action. We want to honor that through our creativity and voice."
Join SkyPilot Theatre for this controversial, powerful and heartrending exploration of the movement that is changing the ways that men and women are relating to each other in life, in the workplace and in society.
Founded in 2004, SkyPilot is a non-profit ensemble company of resident playwrights, actors, directors and designers producing provocative, compelling and challenging new works for the Los Angeles theatre-going audience. In 2010 SkyPilot moved away from producing revivals and began writing and producing only original plays. Notable productions have included Samantha Macher's To The New Girl and War Bride, Adam Hahn's Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla, Nathan Wellman's Inhale Harmonica, Liz Shannon Miller's Light's Off, Eyes Closed, Jeff Goode's The Emancipation Of Alabaster Mcgill, Greg Machlin's Keith Haring: Pieces of a Life, and Earthbound: An Electronica Musical by Adam Hahn (book), Jonathan Price (music), and Chana Wise (lyrics). In 2017, SkyPilot launched its Runway Series, a play development program to workshop and help develop new plays with LA playwrights, beginning with Daniel Rover Singer's newest work, The Cave.
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