Talk and Discussion by Visiting Playwright Anne Bertram
Juddville, Wis. (January 27, 2025) – Write On, Door County will present a talk and discussion by playwright Anne Bertram on three influential women theatre artists: Izumo no Okuni, Aphra Behn, and Eleonora Duse on Saturday, February 8, 1 pm. The event is free and open to the public and will be held on at Write On, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek.
Although their names are probably not familiar to most people, the work these three women inspired most certainly is. Okuni created Kabuki theatre, which, ironically, became an all-male art form. Behn’s influence flowed out to writers as diverse as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rabidndranath Tagore Duse’s revolutionary approach to acting helped to mold performers such as Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Dustin Hoffman. Join Bertram and Write On for a conversation about the influence these three women have on contemporary theatre.
Bertram is a playwright based in Minneapolis. She was a founding artistic associate and Executive Director of Theatre Unbound, a Minneapolis/St. Paul company devoted to work by and about women. Her plays, which critic John Townsend praised for their “visceral sense of women’s history,” have been seen in venues from off-Off Broadway to classrooms in Fargo. “Murderess: (2011) and “The Good Fight (2012) ranked among Theatre Unbound’s best-selling shows and have gone on to numerous productions in the U.S. and Canada. Her awards include the Tennessee Williams One-Act Prize and a Playwrights’ Center Jones Commission. Her current projects include “Unfrozen,” a sound-walk installation created with composer George Maurer, juxtaposing Polar explorer Will Steger’s 1986 journal with texts from explorers of the heroic age.
Write On, Door County is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Write On conducts programs to inspire readers and writers of all ages, at all stages, throughout Door County and beyond.
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