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Women And Water
Directed by Ensemble Member Steven Fedoruk
Spring 2002
Our Season began centering on the Civil War, where
Guare fills the stage with a swirl of people and events
to capture the awful trauma of this cataclysmic happening.
Set against this troubled background, Lydie Breeze,
a Nantucket lass serving as a nurse, determines to find
an idyllic community of kindred spirits in the family
homestead and to fight back against the corruption and
materialism which have overtaken the times, a utopian
scheme which eventually founders on the inability of
its own good intentions. A vivid and panoramic study
of crucial events in American history from the time
of the Civil War onward. A self-contained epic which,
in following the fate of one family, makes a powerful
statement about the disillusionment and disaffection
which became the legacy of national discord.
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