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As Told By Their Daughters, is a 90-minute drama in which four women embody characters of the past and the present: the ironworker fathers of the past and, themselves, the daughters of today. On the anniversary of a tragedy, the daughters grapple with the legacy their fathers built--an apartment building for them all to live in. The daughters over brunch, gather to celebrate the young Aura's birthday....
As Told By Their Daughters, is a 90-minute drama in which four women embody characters of the past and the present: the ironworker fathers of the past and, themselves, the daughters of today. On the anniversary of a tragedy, the daughters grapple with the legacy their fathers built--an apartment building for them all to live in. The daughters over brunch, gather to celebrate the young Aura's birthday. However, the day devolves into a spiraled retelling of the day Aura's father died. Aura struggles to understand the father she never met, putting the pieces together through shreds of stories and memory. Meanwhile, the past unfurls itself as Aura's father Copper learns how he can become a father to his unborn child. Through poetry and distinct blue-collar voices, the play explores parenthood, the performance of gender, and the specific strain of a blue-collar lifestyle.