Burning Powerful Women by Hank Kimmel

OPEN MINDS THEATRE COMPANY LLC PRESENTS TWO NEW PLAYS FROM GEORGIA PLAYWRIGHTS HANK KIMMEL AND EMILY MCCLAIN

NORCROSS- Open Minds Theatre Company will present Burning Powerful Women by Hank Kimmel and All Roads Lead to Rome? by Emily McClain on November 15-17 at 8pm with a matinee at 2:30pm on the 17th at the Belfry Playhouse at Norcross Presbyterian Church in Norcross, GA. Information about the playwrights, plays, and where to buy tickets can be found below.

Hank Kimmel is a founding member and board president of Working Title Playwrights, an Atlanta-based theatre company dedicated to the development of playwrights and new plays -- www.workingtitleplaywrights.com  He also serves as Board President of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, which connects plays with religious content to theatres all over the world --www.alljewishtheatre.org   For a complete listing of Hank's plays, please see www.hankkimmel.com Hank is a long-time member of the Dramatists Guild.  By day, he helps resolve conflicts as a mediator, primarily through the DeKalb and Fulton County courts.

Iowa 1962. Men work. Women take care of the home. And young Mary Jo Brickner is about to get married to John Sybil. It’s a typical year in Swisher until Ritva Puotila storms into town and creates the BPW, a secret order of women designed to empower Mary to become the first female valedictorian of the high school....and a whole lot more. A fractured fairy tale where The Music Man meets Gloria Steinem meets the three witches of MacBeth. 

Emily McClain is a theatre educator at Buford High School in Buford, Georgia. Her play SLAYING HOLOFERNES was selected as a winner for the Essential Theatre’s New Play Festival, receiving a World Premiere production in July of 2019. She is a proud member of Working Title Playwrights in Atlanta and the Dramatists Guild. Her short plays have been staged at Out of Box Theatre (Santa After Hours 2018 and Women’s Shorts 2019), Merely Players (Amplifest), Atlanta AppCo (Culture Series), Raze The Space (Los Angeles Library Series 2019), Theatre Oxford (Ten-Minute Play Winner 2019), and Actor’s Express (Courtroom Drama Series 2019). She lives in Lawrenceville with her husband Paul, her children Graham and Eleanor, and a sweet old dog named Walter.

Kellie’s wealthy family has offered to take her and her wife, Sarah, on an all-expense paid vacation to Italy. Sarah has never been on such an extravagant trip and is willing to look past some small personal “slights” about their lifestyle for the chance to go on a trip they would not be able to afford otherwise. Kellie, however, feels the trip comes with invisible strings attached and wants to refuse. While Kellie’s parents have never been cruel, they have never been particularly supportive or accepting of Sarah and Kellie’s relationship. How important are principles, really? Especially weighed against the offer of a free first-class vacation? 

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Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, active and retired military personnel, and seniors.

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