Women-at-Arms Festival

The Lady Cavaliers, a non-profit action theatre company, is holding the 1st annual Women-at-Arms Festival. Events include hands-on stage combat
workshops, lectures on historical women warriors, the screening of two original short films, a panel discussion on the strength of women in theater today, and the performance of five original short plays incorporating mask, mime, puppetry and a rich variety of swordplay that celebrates the historical woman warrior and the modern action heroine.

THURSDAY Oct. 3rd
8:30 pm ? Short Play Festival

FRIDAY Oct. 4th
6:00 pm ? Lecture “Unsung and Undersung Women Warriors”
7:30 pm – Short Films Screening
8:30 pm – Short Play Festival

SATURDAY Oct. 5th
2:00 pm – Stage Combat Workshop (basic) “Introduction to Swordfighting”
4:00 pm – Stage Combat Workshop (advanced) “Creating a Mass Battle”
6:00 pm ? Lecture “To be or not to be a woman: Kinf Christina and Princess Hamlet”
7:30 pm – Short Films Screening
8:30 pm ? Short Play Festival

SUNDAY Oct. 6th
2:00 pm – Short Play Festival
4:00 pm – Open Panel Discussion

Tickets: Short Play Festival – $15; Lectures – $7; Workshops – $10; Short Films – free; Panel Discussion – free