Can You Hear Their Voices
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 6, 2010
Closed Jun 27, 2010
Opened Jun 6, 2010
Closed Jun 27, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
Visit the Can You Hear Their Voices website:
http://www.peculiarworks.org
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Before the New Deal's Works Progress Administration and the Federal Theatre Project, there was Can You Hear Their Voices? (A Play of Our Time) written by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford. The play, based on the true story of a 1931 Arkansas drought, revealed a rural world of hunger and privation that was horribly neglected by government bureaucracy. With today's frequent and casual use of labels like "Communist" and "Socialist," Peculiar Works Project mines this landmark agitprop play to uncover how such words were interpreted in an earlier--yet remarkably similar--era. The news media constantly reminds us how our current economic situation is the worst "since the Great Depression;" Voices shines a spotlight on the root causes for radical political movements then and now.
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There's a refreshingly -- and appropriate -- homespun quality to the Peculiar Works Project's revival of Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford's Can You Hear Their Voices?, currently running in a site-specific production in a converted storefront space in NoHo.
The venue, along with directors Ralph Lewis and Barry Rowell's staging, certainly makes one feel as if one has been transported back to a time when small groups would gather in such places to not only create theater, but also to discuss their political ideals and formulate their activist plans. Yet even as theatergoers appreciate the sense of recreated verity in the production, it's difficult to not wish that it were tempere[...]