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Exploring Women's Choices. Amplifying Women's Voices

The Culture Project, in association with Planned Parenthood of New York City and the Village Voice will present "WOMEN CENTER STAGE 2005," a 4-week festival (July 29th through August 31st) consisting of ten theatrical events that will explore women's choices and amplify women's voices.

Highlights of the series include:

Baghdad Burning - August 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 & 24 at 7:00PM
Since August 2003, an anonymous 25-year-old Iraqi woman known as "Riverbend" has chronicled her day-to-day life as an educated Muslim woman in occupied. Baghdad Burning is a riveting dramatization of America's encounter with Riverbend's complex reality.

Nightingale written and performed by Lynn Redgrave - August 30
at 7:00PM
Inspired by memories of Lynn Redgrave's maternal grandmother, Nightingale is the story of a woman whose voice, like the small brown bird of the title, can only be heard in the dark.

The Scarlet Letter starring Marisa Tomei - August 7 & 8 at
7:00PM
The Scarlet Letter is a story of a woman exposed, two men hidden, and a child whose eye for the truth shakes Puritan New England to its foundations. An engaging new look at Hawthorne's 1850 classic about church, state, and human love. Planned Parenthood will bring together religious leaders for a post-show panel discussion on religion and reproductive rights. Panel participants include Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman, Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, and Rev. Sara Lamar-Sterling.

Woman Rebel: The Words of Margaret Sanger - August 15 at 7:00PM
Woman Rebel is a dynamic and contemporary compilation of selected speeches, letters, and articles by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Sanger writes elegantly and forcefully about the imperative of birth control in the larger context of personal autonomy, a stronger human race, and the right of every person to love and be loved. Carla Goldstein, Vice President of Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood of NYC, will lead a post-show discussion.

The Speed Queen - August 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 & 26 at 8:00PM
Marjorie Standiford is on Death Row in Oklahoma. Answering questions about the wild life of sex, drugs, and crime that has led to what may be her imminent execution, this is the story of a woman's attempt to set the record straight. Directed by Austin Pendleton. Based upon the novel by Stewart O'Nan.

Special PLANNED PARENTHOOD Discount!
For a limited time only, tickets are 2-4-1 to all Women Center Stage events!

How to get your tickets:
1. Online, go to http://www.ppaction.org/ct/971ePYK1uzhd/ and use the code 241
2. Call Theatermania at 212-352-3101 and mention code 241
3. Bring a printout of this offer to the 45 Bleecker Theater box office at 45 Bleecker St., NYC. The Box Office opens 1 hour prior to each performance

For more info. and to see the complete festival schedule, please
visit http://www.ppaction.org/ct/9p1ePYK1uzhc/

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Starts7/26/2005
Ends9/30/2005
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Posted on July 26, 2005 in Event / Call to action by airyell