DATES: Wednesday, June 3 7:30 pm
Thursday, June 4 7:30 pm
Friday, June 5 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 6 7:00 and 9:30 pm
Sunday, June 7 2:00 pm
Forget the princesses you think you know—the original storybook heroines have tossed their tiaras and come to life to set the record straight in this hilarious hit musical that’s anything but Grimm. These royal renegades are none-too-happy with how they are being portrayed in today’s pop culture, and they’ve arrived to expose the truth by changing the narrative of their own "happily ever afters."
In DISENCHANTED! your favorite princesses comically belt out a subversive, "not-for-the-kiddies" truth that rips the script to shreds. While they tell the princes exactly where to stick their stereotypes, this "Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical" nominee also celebrates individuality and the beauty found within. See for yourself if they really lived happily ever!
Featuring: Addison Hollar, Alex Boatwright, Bella Mancuso, Brianna Armstrong, Emillie Bornelus, Emma Erwin, Madeline Smith, Suraya Shalash, Vivien Kurtz, Sarah Money
TICKTOCK Play Festival
This showcase of short plays and devised work advances the festival’s focus on agency and the power of women to claim ownership of their stories. By reshaping the narrative, we reclaim the pen from those who have miswritten our pasts—or would distort our futures. This festival centers the truth of our lived experiences, setting the record straight unapologetically and in our own voices.
DATES: Wednesday, June 10 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 6 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 7 2:00 pm
Created by NYC-based writer Cavan Hendron, with a book by Hendron and Aaron Roitman, and music and lyrics by Matthew Nassida, BORDEN: A New Musical is directed by Neeta Thadani and produced by Audrey Belle Adams.
Centering on Emma Borden, the sister history forgot, the musical explores the promise that defined her life. In the days surrounding the infamous 1892 murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, Emma struggles to hold her family together as tensions rise within their home and her younger sister Lizzie longs for a life beyond it. When the murders shatter everything, Emma becomes Lizzie’s fiercest defender, bound by a vow she made to their dying mother to protect her at all costs.
As suspicion, public scrutiny, and shifting power dynamics threaten to unravel the truth, Emma is forced to confront the limits of loyalty and the weight of loving someone forever. Told with haunting ambiguity, BORDEN invites audiences to question not just what happened, but what we choose to believe.
Featuring: Eliza Mullins, Hannah Browning, Laura Mancuso, McKinley Harper, Patrick Lee Lucas, Reilly Richardson, and Zackery Morris
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DATES:
Thursday, June 11 @7:30 pm
Talk back with Historian Cara Robertson
Friday, June 12 @7:30 pm
Saturday, June 13 2:00 pm
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Voices HEaRd Workshops
Saturday, June 6 at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center
Donation Based ( $15 suggested donation per workshop)
Taca Hollis: Reclaiming Us
We will work to reclaim the parts us that we have lost along the way. Mommas are nurturing everyone but themselves. ..Losing identity in a job or people pleasing.. We will share stories and identify the disconnect. Through poetry we will express the desired outcome and maybe some steps that lead us in that direction.
Taca Born in Elizabethtown, KY began writing poetry at the age of 14. Taca’s poetry was a way of escape from pain due to trauma. Her alchemical approach and transparency is an invitation to join her on a journey toward wholeness in Mind, and Spirit. She is heavily influenced by the wordsmiths Maya Angelou, Mos Def, Saul Williams, Jasmine Mans, and Divine Carama. Going to her very first open mic in 2011, Divine Carama encouraged her to use the voice that had been silenced for most of her life.
Edie Moon: Make Your Voices Heard Through Devising
In the Spirit of "Voices HEaRd", explore the power of your voice and playwriting skills by devising material together from the ground up beginning with provocative starting points and continuing through the inspiration of physical theatre, contemporary women playwrights, and Moment Work.
Edie Moon is an IB Certified educator, director, and workshop instructor. She has lived most of her life overseas teaching and directing in an American international school in Seoul, Korea-Seoul Foreign School. There, she developed a schoolwide theatre program (K-12) which provided large scale performances, theatre training, an annual Actor in Residence program, and Theatre Festivals for schools throughout Asia. Over the past 17 years, she taught the two year IB Theatre course. She also directed 80 shows which included musical theatre, comedy, drama, devised performances, Shakespeare, physical theatre, immersive theatre, theatre of the Oppressed, and Asian Theatre. Her study of theatre has taken her to NYC, London, Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Vietnam and of course, South Korea. One claim to fame is that during Covid when all activities in the school were shut down, she found creative ways for students to KEEP performing! Ask her about that!!! Care for her aging parents brought her back to the US 3 years ago and she has now settled in the Lexington, Kentucky area. Her focus presently is providing Theatre workshops in the US and abroad as well as finding opportunities to direct in found spaces and beyond while always encouraging activism through art.
Patricia Mullins: Sketchy Ladies
Learn the basics of turning life's absurdities into written comedy in this 90 minute session! Patricia Mullins, Artistic Director of Lex Comedy Co. leads participants on an interactive journey to getting your ideas from your head and to the paper. Discover how to begin using your thoughts and experiences to craft jokes and scenes within the formula of sketch comedy
Patricia is a theater artist with more than 15 years of acting, writing, directing, and teaching experience. She's the Artistic Director of Lexington's only dedicated improv school, Lex Comedy Co. Patricia is a graduate of the competitive Second City Chicago Conservatory. With her all-female identifying company, Alphas Comedy, she directed dozens of sketch shows in Cincinnati. Her works have been featured at the Cincy Fringe festival, including "Velma & Clarice: The AMAZING Amazing Race"
Email Voices HEaRd Associate Producer Rylie Sudduth to register: ryliesudduth@gmail.com