Rubble Women

David Smith Furniture Warehouse, Seattle

About the Show

Rubble Women seeks to explore, in a physical and visceral way, the strength of women throughout time, beginning with the question: what gives women the ability to keep hearth and home together under significant duress; what is that energy, what is that endurance?

Inspired by the actual Rubble Women of post World War II Berlin, this world premiere play, written by Martha Enson and directed by Intiman’s Associate Director, Sheila Daniels, will use this particular event as one framing device for the piece. Through winter, famine and frost, these women picked up rubble and remade the city of Berlin, quietly and with tremendous perseverance.

Rubble Women uses text culled from a deconstructed Trojan Women and original song and music to demonstrate strength and endurance. Rubble Women will use the warehouse of David Smith Furniture for the performance space and David Smith chairs for audience. Rubble Women marks the first full scale production that UMO Ensemble has embarked on in over four years and will include original music written by Gretta Harley.