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ONWARD – Votes for Women is a world premiere documentary play created by Lisa Rafferty, with music arranged and composed by Adam McDonald. Commissioned by the Associates of the Boston Public Library in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, ONWARD offers the voices and perspectives of the extraordinary women who fought for 70 years for equality. The script is created verbatim from...
ONWARD – Votes for Women is a world premiere documentary play created by Lisa Rafferty, with music arranged and composed by Adam McDonald. Commissioned by the Associates of the Boston Public Library in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, ONWARD offers the voices and perspectives of the extraordinary women who fought for 70 years for equality. The script is created verbatim from documents from the Special Collection, and other speeches, letters, articles and interviews from a variety of sources. Suffrage music and songs will be interspersed throughout the production, along with an original composition. Over thirty historical characters from the movement, along with women leaders from our time, will be portrayed by a cast of ten for two performances on [date to be determined because of the pandemic] at Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall.