The first play in the trilogy Wednesday To Come
What do you know about the Depression of the thirties? In history books you will find little even about the notorious unemployment relief camps; about the effects the Depression upon family life you will find next to nothing.
In Wednesday To cCome, Renée takes four women of four generations in a single family and looks at how they cope. Working class women, says Renée, have been invisible for too long — not because they are inarticulate but because they are unrecorded. This play, which audiences found so moving in its first production, is also “a passionate celebration of the contribution women have made to the politics of this country …”
Cover: Jane Waddell as Iris at Downstage, photo Christine Laven.
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