When We Were Young and Unafraid at Community College of Rhode Island Players

In 1972 -- before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act -- Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast on an island off the coast of Washington State into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. Mary Anne is her latest runaway, having been severely beaten by her husband of six years. Despite her condition, Mary Anne has still not gotten over him, as they were childhood sweethearts. Soon, to Agnes’s dismay, Mary Anne begins to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny, giving her some questionable advice about how to deal with boys, which Penny is only too anxious to put into practice. Two other characters who become involved are Paul, a guest at the B&B, and Hannah, a wayfarer looking for work on her way to a radical woman's collective nearby. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.