Jean Ann Douglass

Carrie defines the rules; Amelia envisions a husband who darns her bloomers; Frederick renounces his manhood; Margaret rides the train; Eileen drinks sherry; and Mabel lets someone else bandage her wounds. Variously platonic, romantic, and erotic, Jean Ann Douglass's Seneca Falls is an anachronistic triptych through late-nights in the first 72 years of the women’s suffrage movement: 72 years of mostly a lot of waiting.

Commissioned by Montana Rep, in answer to the question: how can we still do live theatre during the pandemic? The play contains characters who never come in contact with one another and was premiered outdoors at a fire tower, which allowed audience members and actors to safely socially distance outdoors.

Fresh from university, clutching proposals and plans, a man tends his newly assigned patch of forest. At night, he visits with his wife. At night, the forest is free. Inspired by gothic drama, the Great Fire of 1910, the creation of the national forest service, and Gifford Pinchot's secret marriage to a ghost.

It’s an exciting day for Dora here in North Providence, Rhode Island. Today is the day Dora is going to make coffee, go outside, and make friends with Ronnie. Ronnie lives in the apartment next door, so of course they were meant to be friends. Ronnie isn’t sure how she wound up living in North Providence for all these years, with a balcony overlooking the parking lot and the weird hill across the street. But here they both are, where nothing exciting has really happened since the great beaver purge of the mid-20th century. That is, until Jane shows up at Ronnie’s door. Maybe she’s just the distraction they need.

It’s been ten years since college graduation, and this group of seven ladyfriends has gathered for their annual ladycation. When it all gets to be too much, they each have an object they can talk to. The women are women. The objects are men.

On a school bus inside and outside of time.