3Girls Theatre Company Presents our 4 th Annual New Works Festival at Thick House Theatre
3GT Honors Risky Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc!
ABOUT OUR FESTIVAL EVENTS
ReproRights! Women @ Risk
Thursday, August 6, 2015 7:30 pm
3GT -- along with our guest curator, Repro Rights Theater--is delighted to present an evening of short works in response to the dire need to address attacks on women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive rights in the U.S. The program honors the risk-takers of NARAL Pro-Choice
California, who have inspired us with their leadership and passion for protecting women’s reproductive rights for nearly forty years. Join us as we explore this important women’s rights issue using the provocative and entertaining medium of theatre. The program will be introduced by NARAL Executive Committee member Nonie Greene.
Tickets are free to the public but space is very limited. Reserve tix online at 3girlstheatre.org.
Media contact: Lisa Geduldig, lisag@igc.org
, 415-431-7363.
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PROGRAM
(See our website for more about the writers and performers)
OH GOOD LORD by Megan Cohen
The Virgin Mary is stricken and shocked by her pregnancy test result.
BOOM, SPLAT by the all-women comedy troupe Chardonnay
A repro rights rap
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES by Margy Kahn
In the whittling away of Roe v. Wade rights, choices narrow. Can you get your own P.O. box and safely empty it in private?
CLINIC OF OZ by Elizabeth Flanagan
Follow the journey of a young orphan from rural Kansas as she searches for any place but home.
IT FARCELY SEEMS POSSIBLE by Jennifer Roberts
A farce about how easy it is for women to make decisions about their bodies and health.

A BAKER'S DOZEN by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Grace and Joseph Baker don't believe in birth control or sex education - and they have thirteen children to show for it.
THE BIBLE AND GRACE by Lee Brady
Grace is a freshman at the Bethany Nazarene College who finds herself pregnant and unwed— and terrified.
MIDNIGHT AT LA CATRINA by Madeline Puccioni
In November 1970, Meg and her boyfriend Francis go to Tijuana to get an illegal abortion. Will their relationship -- and Meg -- survive the trip?
A WOMB OF ONE'S OWN by Jeremy Cole
I n this brief comic lecture, Virginia Woolf returns from the grave to share her opinions on reproduction rights and the absolute necessity for bodily autonomy.
There will be one ten-minute intermission
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About the 3GT New Works Festival: 3GT’s annual New Works Festival represents the very best of 3GT's work in developing, producing and promoting original work by women playwrights throughout the year. Each year we choose a theme for the festival to focus our work and help the community rally around important issues. This year's theme is 3GT Celebrates Risky
Women: Having Fun and Wreaking Havoc! It calls attention to the need for women who break rules and defy the norm—values embodied by our resident playwrights, company members and this year's featured community and artistic collaborators.
About 3Girls Theatre Company: 3GT’s mission is to develop, produce and promote new plays written by San Francisco Bay Area women playwrights. In 2011, San Francisco playwrights Suze
Allen, AJ Baker and Lee Brady decided it was time to stop complaining about the lack of opportunities for women playwrights in American theater and take action. With fearless enthusiasm, the three Girls set about recruiting a company of amazing women who shared their vision to “put women’s work on stage where it belongs.” Today, 3GT’s resident playwrights collaborate with one another and the larger community to create and support extraordinary new work by women playwrights through three core programs: the annual New Works Festival. the intimate Salon Reading Series, and full productions of new plays. 3GT also sponsors outreach programs that develop new playwrights, empower girls, and nurture LBT playwrights and performers.
About Repro Rights Theater: Repro Rights Theater began in 2012 when a group of writers, producers, directors, and theater artists responded to the dire need to address attacks on women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive rights in the US. Using performance as the medium to explore these issues not only seemed appropriate, but natural. If ever there was a place for the transformative, it’s theater. Repro Rights is grateful to partner with 3Girls Theatre to lend our voices to the ongoing struggle for women’s bodily autonomy and honor the work of NARAL
Pro-Choice California.