Stardust Doherty

Reaching adulthood in a tumultuous period leading up to the Spanish Civil War and Social Revolution in the 1930s, lesbian anarchist revolutionary Lucía Sánchez Saornil joins anarchists organizing in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, National Confederation of Labor). Women organizers, including Lucía's friends Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón and her lover América Barroso, experience gender-based oppression both within and outside of the anarchist worker movement. Debating anarchist male leadership and seeking to center the movement on women's liberation as well as class issues, they are inspired to form an intersectional women's movement organization called Mujeres Libres (“Free Women”). Through the chaos of war and the resulting strain on their relationships, their personal and collective struggles for liberation in a period of rising fascism foreshadow and parallel our struggles today.

Lucía is available in four language versions:

English
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
French

If you would like to read the script with the intention of performing and/or publishing the play, please contact the genderqueer playwright Stardust.

It’s the year 2020. The President has been re-elected, the climate is heating up, and the economy is in meltdown. Now, it’s up to all of us to figure out what happens next. In this satirical participatory performance, audience members choose from a list of possible scenarios they want staged: impeachment? a coup? a revolution? “20/20” asks what people power looks like in a time of vast uncertainty when even choosing to do nothing at all has its consequences.

Show website at http://www.ritualart.org/2020

"You Too" is about abuse, the #metoo movement, and hope for the future.

"You Too" tells the story of a female Senate candidate running against a former Hollywood director accused of harassing women. The media orchestrates the race between the two candidates and manipulates the reaction from the audience, playing with true and false accusations, and questioning the whole nature of harassment. Throughout the course of events in the play, our characters evolve and learn to find their own ground.

More info at http://ritualart.org/youtoo

Animal Factory Farm is a play portraying a fable about animals treated poorly by humans who band together and learn that humans are risking not only animal lives, but everything about our way of life on earth.

More info at http://ritualart.org/animalfactoryfarm/

Ecopocalypse is a dystopian play in which corporations and the wealthy continue the pursuit of profit at the expense of the environment.

More info at http://ritualart.org/ecopocalypse/

On June 12, 2013, Occupy the Auctions and Evictions staged an intervention at the San Francisco Employee Retirement System meeting to protest six months of rebuffs from the commissioners on the retirement board to properly debating a proposal to engage with banks like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase regarding their illegal, predatory, and discriminatory mortgage loan practices that led to millions of foreclosures and evictions across the United States.

Nine housing justice activists staged a “magical, transformational intervention” of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS) Retirement Board meeting on June 12, 2013, in which masked players impersonated the Retirement Board Commissioners and explained why they had a change of heart, then passed two motions to engage banks like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase on their illegal, predatory, and discriminatory lending practices according to the long-standing SFERS social investment policy.