Tyndale Place by
Book and Lyrics by Jennifer Childs, Music by Monica Stephenson
It's 1955 in Levittown NY and Arlene has just moved to Tyndale Place to get the suburban life she always thought she wanted. But the life of a housewife in a homogeneous neighborhood provides more isolation and monotony than fulfillment and she finds herself aching for her old factory job. She spends her days taking apart her...
It's 1955 in Levittown NY and Arlene has just moved to Tyndale Place to get the suburban life she always thought she wanted. But the life of a housewife in a homogeneous neighborhood provides more isolation and monotony than fulfillment and she finds herself aching for her old factory job. She spends her days taking apart her...
Book and Lyrics by Jennifer Childs, Music by Monica Stephenson
It's 1955 in Levittown NY and Arlene has just moved to Tyndale Place to get the suburban life she always thought she wanted. But the life of a housewife in a homogeneous neighborhood provides more isolation and monotony than fulfillment and she finds herself aching for her old factory job. She spends her days taking apart her appliances and slowly convincing the other ladies of Tyndale Place (Donna B., Donna C. and Donna J.) that they deserve more. A look at the time between the Suffrage movement and the fight for the ERA and how 1950s suburban life set back the first wave feminist movement while planting the seeds for the second.
It's 1955 in Levittown NY and Arlene has just moved to Tyndale Place to get the suburban life she always thought she wanted. But the life of a housewife in a homogeneous neighborhood provides more isolation and monotony than fulfillment and she finds herself aching for her old factory job. She spends her days taking apart her appliances and slowly convincing the other ladies of Tyndale Place (Donna B., Donna C. and Donna J.) that they deserve more. A look at the time between the Suffrage movement and the fight for the ERA and how 1950s suburban life set back the first wave feminist movement while planting the seeds for the second.