Description:

Final performance (December 19) canceled due to weather. Our apologies! Please call the box office at 434-977-4177×108 for refunds or exchanges.

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Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody. Who? They may not be the easiest names to recognize (it’s true, they’re not quite Marsha, Jan, and Cindy) but these three sisters were a unique and revolutionary force in the world of 19th-century American literature, education, and thought — and they are the basis for Our American Ann Sisters,  an original work by the Performers Exchange Project. This world premiere performance is a vaudeville of the mind, a melodrama of social consciousness. As modern-day female artists, the trail-blazing ladies of the Performers Exchange Project have built on both their own experiences of 20th-century pop culture and their curiosity about the lives of the incredible 19th-century Peabody family… their “Ann Sisters.” This intersection serves as a springboard for their vaudevillian fantasia on being a woman, an artist, an intellectual, and an American.

Our American Ann Sisters is directed by Martha Mendenhall, assisted by Kara McLane Burke and performed by Doreen Bechtol, Sian Richards, Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell and guest artist Kay Ferguson. It was created by the Performers Exchange Project, in collaboration with Live Arts, choreographer Katharine Birdsall, designers Mark Schuyler, Jenny McNee, John Scheidler, Thadd McQuade, songwriter Shannon Worrell, and filmmaker Billy Hunt. The play is made possible through grants from SHEA Collaborative and Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, and support from Horton Foundation, the Owens Family, Shannon Worrell, an Anonymous donor and many others.

Dates:

Friday, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm