Looking for Lilith Theatre Company: Finding Women's Voices
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company is looking to change the fact that only 20 percent of playwrights, directors and other theater professionals are women. The scrappy Looking for Lilith Theater Company re-examines history and the present from women’s perspectives and celebrates their many achievements.
Looking for Lilith uses oral and written women's histories to fashion engaging original plays. The theater company also stages current feminist works and revives under-appreciated plays by women from the past. The hope is that a wider audience can hear a perspective that has been greatly under-represented on the stage. Looking for Lilith believes in the value of multiple perspectives on history.
Past productions have included 2002’s Crossing Mountains, which told the tale of the Hindman Settlement School; 2004’s Class of ’70, a coming of age play set in the late 1960s; What My Hands Have Touched, a critically acclaimed original work about servicewomen during World War II, and Women Speak: IRAQ, an original one-woman show based on interviews with women about their experiences with the ongoing Iraq War.
The theater company takes its name from an ancient Jewish tradition that Eve was Adam’s second wife. His first wife, Lilith, had been created out of the dust at the same time that Adam was. She was banished from the Garden of Eden by God for daring to insist on being Adam’s equal.
Looking for Lilith, naturally, has always had a strong interest in education. The company works with students in workshops to explore the themes and histories involved with Looking for Lilith’s performances.
But the theater company doesn't limit its outreach to just kids. Looking for Lilith offers skill-building workshops and outreach on themes of interest to the community as well as on their live theater shows in particular and acting in general.
HelloLouisville Tip: In addition to providing workshops to schools, Looking for Lilith also offers in-school performances that range in price from $200 for a 10-minute monologue by a single actor to $500 to $2,000 for full-length in-school performances. These same productions tour to performing arts centers, universities, community centers, festivals and other locations.
Posted on Feb 4, 2011 by Ivonne Rovira
