REDCAT 2023

Conceived and Directed by SARA LYONS, co-created with THE ENSEMBLE

Performed by JENNIFER JONASSEN, JACK MACCARTHY, STACI MIZE, CHENOA RAE, MICHELLE SUI

Archival texts adapted by SARA LYONS from texts by Vivan Gornick; Shulamith Firestone; Anonymous members of Redstockings (1969); Jamison Green; Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan; Lena Hill

Costume Designer: LENA SANDS

Scenic Designer: EMILY ANNE MACDONALD

Media and Interaction Designer: JOSEPH AMODEI

Lighting Designer: CHU-HSUAN CHANG

Sara Lyons This Emancipation Thing awakens transcripts from 1970s second-wave feminist consciousness-raising circles and juxtaposes them against the present in a new theatre event led by an interracial, gender-expansive ensemble. How do our relationships, our desires, our relationships with our bodies vibrate between 1968 and 2023, across generations? Whether for an hour or for six, settle into a womb of listening and care as contemporary LA-based feminists of all ages and genders intervene in the past, collapsing time in a new kind of theater experience from director Sara Lyons. With reproductive rights slipping through our fingers, what wisdom must we awaken from the activists who ushered in Roe v. Wade (1973)? What of that past must we crumble — and how will we emerge from the rubble?