Clubbed Thumb announces the world premiere of THE WOMAN'S PARTY

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Award-winning theatre company Clubbed Thumb has announced the upcoming virtual world premiere of The Woman’s Party, originally scheduled to run as part of the 2020 Summerworks Festival.

Written by Rinne B. Groff and directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, The Woman’s Party has been divided into three 30-minute episodes, which were filmed over the course of four weeks remotely from each actor’s home.

The first episode will be released on Thursday 22 April, with successive episodes available on Thursday 29 April and Thursday 6 May. All three episodes will then remain available to stream until August 2021.

1947 is the year that the savvy politicos of the National Woman’s Party will finally get the ERA passed—once they quash that insurgency. Or oust the old guard. Failure is Impossible.

The Woman’s Party takes place 27 years after the ratification of women’s suffrage, when the Equal Rights Amendment was poised for passage. We meet ten impressive women, veterans of the original battle, roughly organized in two opposing sides: one representing strategic, sometimes brutally single-minded focus on passing the ERA, the other seeking a broader mandate, to include other issues, other voices. The production grapples with critical failures within that chapter of Feminism, and what happens when vision and strategy are at loggerheads. 

The Woman’s Party features Rosalyn Coleman, Alma Cuervo, Laura Esterman, Marga Gomez, Marceline Hugot, Emily Kuroda, Lizan Mitchell, Socorro Santiago, Rebecca Schull and Connie Winston.

The production has set design by dots, lighting by Masha Tsimring, costumes by Mel Ng, and sound by Melanie Chen Cole.

Producing Artistic Director Maria Striar said: “Soon after we committed to a production of this commissioned play, the pandemic locked down all live theater-making. We then began to explore making a virtual iteration, understanding that it was unlikely that we’d be performing in person in a tiny theater with ten older women any time soon. It's an ambitious project, and to pull it off we've gathered one of the largest teams of artists we've ever hired from a wide array of disciplines. It is all still an experiment, but one we are extremely excited about.” 

The Woman’s Party will be available to stream here.