The Necessity of Divorce at New Perspectives Theatre Company

New Perspectives Theatre Company presents the next reading in our ON HER SHOULDERS program, introducing women playwrights from the past to contemporary audiences.
Written in 1790, THE NECESSITY OF DIVORCE by Olympe de Gouges, translated by Clarissa Palmer, offered a radical vision of marriage as an equal partnership, delivered with playful humor & wit!

Directed by Lynn Marie Macy, dramaturgy by Melody Brooks.
with: Noah Anderson*, Bill Blechingberg*, Janelle Clayton, Archa Joshi, C. Amanda Maud*, Bess Miller, Arisael Rivera*, Leajato Robinson*

Donors will receive the Play In Context essay, which situates the script in it's original time and place.

"A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker's platform."

ON HER SHOULDERS was founded in May 2013 to present rehearsed, staged readings of plays by women from across the spectrum of time, with contemporary dramaturgs contextualizing them for modern audiences. To date, the program has presented 60 plays by 47 writers, from the years ca. 955 to 1970. The Play in Context, the dramaturgical and scholarly presentation component for all of the readings, is sponsored in part by the League of Professional Theatre Women.