sola voce
program of solo shows

Sola Voce is a powerhouse program of solo shows. From hilarious to heart-wrenching, Sola Voce is a eclectic showcase of the art of solo performance.

Each night of Sola Voce features one, or several, one woman shows from exciting new theatre artists. Tickets are $18.

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Friday, October 7th @ 6pm
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Hand-Me-Downs
Integrating the anger of Antigone and the nonsense of Mother Goose, a natural-born rebel performs scenes and poetry from her life as she dramatizes constrictive gender roles and prescriptive motherhood.
directed by Kathline Carr and Malini Singh McDonald
written and performed by Donna Barkman

Lace Curtain Irish
Thirty-five years after the infamous Fall River axe murders, an Irish woman, working in her kitchen in Anaconda, Montana, opens a newspaper to read about the death of the alleged murderer, Lizzie Borden. The woman is Bridget Sullivan, the Borden's former maid. A gripping solo one-act that turns history on its head!
written by Carolyn Gage
performed by Denise Poirier.

Saturday, October 8th @ 6pm
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The Pain of Pink Evenings
Published in the anthology Best American Short Plays of 2000-2001, this lyrical solo play tells the story of Tracy Lusk, a grieving young widow coming to terms with her dead husband, and father.
written by Rosemary Moore
directed by Nancy Gabor
performed by Wendy Allegaert.

Listen, Can You Hear Me Now?
Funny...irreverent...a hearing child's life interpreting for deaf parents leads to a search for her own voice.
directed by Peter Flint
written and performed by Gloria Rosen

Friday, October 14th @ 6pm
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Formerly Known as Sarah
Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S., borrows the body of actress Joyce Griffen to step off her historic pedestal and share the real deal of her journey from daughter of late 1800's southern African American sharecroppers (who die when she's young) to hiring an African American architect to design her showplace mansion in lily-white Irvington, NY.
directed by Passion
written and performed by Joyce Griffen

Saturday, October 15th @ 6pm
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Pelican Girls
When Mobile, Alabama, was a French Colony, a boatload of brides arrived from France. They were called the Pelican Girls.
written and directed by Richard Ballon
performed by Kate Hare.

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please
A tiny play about underground humiliation
written and performed by Emily Kunkel

Call Me
A freshly single woman in her 30s awkwardly attempts to navigate the tech-heavy dating scene. Call her old-fashioned or old school, this girl longs for human interaction. And if that means having a threesome with a suburban couple from Jersey, so be it.
directed by Megan Cooper
written and performed by Katherine Williams

Friday, November 4th @ 6pm
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When They Go and You Do Not
"What matters is hard to know when half your soul has slipped like jello thought the grate." Widowed Wendy finds her way back to purpose again after the death of her long-time love.
directed by Bob Jaffe
written and performed by Susan Merson

Saturday, November 5th @ 6pm
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A Captive Audience
Rebecca is trapped. In this room. In her life. Will she find her way out, or will she kept here forever?
directed by Melissa Attebery
written and peformed by Vanessa Shealy

Take Two Asprin and Call Me in the Morning
Lily, a playwright, is talking on the phone to the director of her new play. One of the actors calls and then her ex-husband. While switching from one caller to the other, Lily slips, falls and breaks her leg. And then things get interesting.
written by Geoffrey Craig
directed by Allison M. Weakland
performed by Arlene Merryman

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