Ona, Salome, and Mariche’s story is serving as inspiration for playwrights in New York City. A press launch introduced that Orion Pictures and Audible are teaming as much as current a one evening solely manufacturing of “Women Talking” at off-Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre. “Women Talking: An Evening of Wild Female Imagination” will happen January 9. The efficiency will probably be recorded and accessible to stream later this month on Audible.
Now in theaters, “Women Talking” is about in a distant Mennonite colony and tells the story of a gaggle of ladies struggling to reconcile their religion within the aftermath of a sequence of sexual assaults perpetrated by their neighborhood’s males. Sarah Polley wrote and directed the awards contender, which is predicated on Miriam Toews’ novel of the identical identify.
The reside occasion will deliver collectively Polley with “cast members Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Liv McNeil, and Kate Hallett, to perform three new short plays from emerging playwrights Sandra Delgado, ruth tang, and Brittany Allen,” per the discharge. “The event performances are inspired by the film and its themes, especially the choice the main characters of ‘Women Talking’ need to make as a community: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Leave.” Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Heidi Schreck, greatest identified for “What the Constitution Means to Me,” is about to take part in a dialog with Polley and the night’s playwrights. “Zoe Chao (‘Long Weekend,’ ‘Search Party’) will perform, and two-time Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada (‘Hadestown,’ ‘Miss Saigon’) will round out the evening’s cast with a performance of Billie Eilish’s ‘my future.’”
Kimberly Senior is directing the manufacturing.
“There is something very communal about our film ‘Women Talking,’” Polley mentioned in a press release. “It asks audiences many questions and strives for discussion. As a director, it was wonderful to get to work with the cast through an elongated rehearsal process, and primarily in one location which made us all feel a bit like working on the stage. It is exciting to be able to celebrate this film with a one night only stage production and to be able to give voice to Sandra Delgado, Brittany Allen, and ruth tang to create pieces based on the themes of the film is thrilling. More than anything, these pieces look toward a hopeful and essential future.”