NO WORD IN GUYANESE FOR ME to be Presented as Part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival

Rainbow Theatre Project will mount a full production of Wendy Graf's No Word in Guyanese for Me as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, a regional collaboration that includes 30 Washington, D.C.-area theaters producing plays by female and female-identifying playwrights. After being performed as a staged reading last season, No Word in Guyanese for Me will run from February 8 - March 4, 2018 at the District of Columbia Arts Center.

A one woman show, No Word in Guyanese for Me follows Hanna throughout her struggle to reconcile her beliefs in the faith she holds so dear and her need to be true to herself. As Hanna takes the audience on a journey from her childhood in Guyana through her adolescence in both a pre- and post-9/11 New York City to a disastrous arranged marriage, she discovers that she has a right to be accepted for who she is while still following the covenants of her faith.

"The Women's Voices Theater Festival is dedicated to highlighting the scope of plays being written by women and the range of professional theater being produced in the nation's capital region. The Festival's debut in 2015 featured world premiere plays by female playwrights on stages across Washington, D.C. and was heralded as a landmark in striving for gender parity in American theater," states a Women's Voices Theater Festival press release. "Led by seven of Washington's largest theaters-Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company-the Festival leverages collaboration among regional theater producers to create a platform for the nation's most talented and innovative female and female-identifying playwrights and their newest plays."

Not only is No Word in Guyanese For Me an entirely female production that adds to the Festival's mission, but the story being told is one of a universally recognizable struggle about a woman learning that she has every right to be accepted for who she truly is.

Julia Hurley (Director) and Ashley K. Nicholas (Hanna), both of whom made their Rainbow Theatre Project debuts last season for the staged reading of No Word in Guyanese for Me, will return for this year's production.

No Word in Guyanese for Me will run from February 8 - March 4, 2018 at the District of Columbia Arts Center. Tickets are general admission and can be purchased for $35. For tickets please visit: http://www.rainbowtheatreproject.org/tickets.html