TANIA IN THE GETAWAY VAN by
A play about a mom caught up, a girl in retreat, POWER & time.
It's the fall of 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and 11-year-old Laura's on the floor of the hall closet, pretending to be Patty Hearst. Her mom, Diane, is getting ready to head back to school, gonna get a job, gonna make Laura her companion in new-found liberation, openness, possibility! If, by quirk of history,...
It's the fall of 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and 11-year-old Laura's on the floor of the hall closet, pretending to be Patty Hearst. Her mom, Diane, is getting ready to head back to school, gonna get a job, gonna make Laura her companion in new-found liberation, openness, possibility! If, by quirk of history,...
A play about a mom caught up, a girl in retreat, POWER & time.
It's the fall of 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and 11-year-old Laura's on the floor of the hall closet, pretending to be Patty Hearst. Her mom, Diane, is getting ready to head back to school, gonna get a job, gonna make Laura her companion in new-found liberation, openness, possibility! If, by quirk of history, Laura is supposed to come of age at the same time as her mom... well, she's not gonna play, no way. Flash forward to today: is Laura a model product of the women’s movement, or just of Diane’s expectations?
This is a play with a few very casual songs... which composer Rachel Peters has set for it.
It's the fall of 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and 11-year-old Laura's on the floor of the hall closet, pretending to be Patty Hearst. Her mom, Diane, is getting ready to head back to school, gonna get a job, gonna make Laura her companion in new-found liberation, openness, possibility! If, by quirk of history, Laura is supposed to come of age at the same time as her mom... well, she's not gonna play, no way. Flash forward to today: is Laura a model product of the women’s movement, or just of Diane’s expectations?
This is a play with a few very casual songs... which composer Rachel Peters has set for it.