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October 29th Join Us for an Open Discussion on Getting Out The Vote, Suffrage, The Play, and
Getting Out the Vote on November 3rd!
Oct 29, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85693146583?pwd=eWNoN1g0Ny9KZ0tMZUpuZ1p4cXFidz09
Meeting ID: 856 9314 6583 Passcode: 676183
Passcode: 676183 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kXqDMCAk
50,000 Mice
YOUTUBE LINKS TO COME!
A New Play by Jessica Litwak
In Celebration of Women’s Suffrage!
In celebrating the CENTENNIAL year of the 19th Amendment
WE EXPLORE our HISTORY
TO SHAPE our FUTURE!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwY6YIeXcOW4uRf_QH1SF5A
October 22 An Alternate To Debate Night 7:00 EST
The Solo Play:
With:
Jessica Litwak, Kirsten Kammermeyer and Karla Mosley
The ZOOM Reading: Oct 26 7:00 EST
In this Version a group of 11 actors come together to read the play in order to stir up action and discussion.
With:
Gina Alvarado ,Melinda Buckley, Paola Irun, Kirsten Kammermeyer, Joan Lipkin, Jessica Litwak, Ashley Marinaccio, Camille Mazurek, Karla Mosley, Miranda Jane Williams and Nick Sholley
The Discussion: Oct 29th 7:00 EST
Citizens (who have watched one or both of the 50,000 Mice offerings) come together to discuss voter suppression, voting rights and what we can do to Get Out The Vote in the last days before the 2020 Election
Solo Version:
Ensemble Version:
50,000 Mice:
The Selena Solomon Story
By Jessica Litwak
Selena Solomons a Sephardic Jew from San Francisco believed the 1896 defeat of Votes for Women Act was due to a lack of emphasis on working class women. She opened The Votes For Women Club in San Francisco. She served a 5 cent lunch and served the working women soup and reading materials on the suffrage movement.
This is a fast moving, funny, educational and moving look at an overlooked corner of the Suffrage movement. It is a one woman play written for the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment.
Before the Pandemic the vision for the live play was this: The audience enters the Votes For Women Club lunchroom in downtown San Francisco. Election Day, 1911. Each audience member receives a nickel to buy a bowl of soup. Some audience members are handed pieces of paper to read towards the end of the play. The audience sits at long tables family style. They are served bowls of soup by women dressed as suffragists.
NOW the virtual offerings are as follows
The SOLO Version:
October 8-11 The Petaluma Museum
October 10th The Marsh International Solo Festival
Oct 22
All but two of the characters are played by one actress, there are African American and Native American voices read by actresses of those ethnicities on film. The play has the potential to include ancillary events such as panel discussions with leaders of the women’s movement, historians and activists.
.ABOUT THE PLAY:
This play tells the story of Selena Solomons who was a Sephardic Jew from San Francisco. She believed the 1896 defeat of Votes for Women Act was due to a lack of emphasis on working class women. She opened The Votes For Women Club in San Francisco. She served a 5 cent lunch and served the working women soup and reading materials on the suffrage movement. The play looks at many factions of suffrage from the perspective of a Jewish Suffragist a Black Suffragist an American Indian woman, the experience of a Lesbian Woman as well as a poor Irish immigrant
SOUP & SUFFRAGE:
This is a fast moving, funny, educational and moving look at an under represented corner of the Suffrage movement. It is a one woman play written for the 2020 Centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment. It can be performed as a 20, 45 or 75 minute performance. The longer versions should have Soup. The play has the potential to include ancillary events such as panel discussions voter registration, interactive exhibits and period music. The play can stand alone or be done in conjunction with other Suffrage activities.
