UP FROM THE ASHES Tragedy and Change asks the question: why do workers face risk of death or injury even today, in 2013, when we have such examples from our past to motivate real and lasting change?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire forms the central part of this one-woman show that examines the labor movement’s efforts before and after the 1911 tragedy, from multiple points of view—factory owners, protesters like Mother Jones and Rose Schneiderman, and the immigrant workers themselves. The American Dream belonged to all of them. So what went wrong?
PDC at Iron Age Residency.
featuring Isa St. Clair
Running January 9-12 at The Centre Theater as part of the Independent Voices Festival and then January 16-19 in Philadelphia. at the Off broad Street Theatre