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Lawbreakers! (a fast and furious history of women’s suffrage)

Written By: Diana Grisanti
Length: 60 minutes
Cast Size: 6-19 actors (suggested casting: 5F, 1M)
Genre: Comedy
Sub-Genre: Historical, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
Synopsis:
A pair of feuding modern-day stepsisters wake up at the Akron Women's Rights Convention of 1851, and find themselves on a whirlwind journey through US history. As they face the challenges of each time with fascinating suffragists, abolitionists, and freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, the young women must decide what they really believe and what kind of world they want to stand...Read More

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Genre Comedy
Sub-genre Historical, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
Length Type Full-Length
Theme Historical, Family, Social Significance
Cast Size 6-19 actors (suggested casting: 5F, 1M)
Approx. Running Time 60 minutes
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A pair of feuding modern-day stepsisters wake up at the Akron Women's Rights Convention of 1851, and find themselves on a whirlwind journey through US history. As they face the challenges of each time with fascinating suffragists, abolitionists, and freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, the young women must decide what they really believe and what kind of world they want to stand up for when they get back home. The fight for women's rights meets Bill and Ted, and adventure becomes an inspiring call to vote, in this exhilarating play.

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  • Broadway World

    Sure to inspire the leaders of tomorrow

    "Fast-paced with its lessons and bold in its message...this play is sure to inspire the leaders of tomorrow.... Grisanti has interwoven chanting, prose-like recitation of Sojourner Truth's and Alice Paul's famous speeches with the bop and slang of modern teenage girl vernacular. ... At its core, the relationship of two step-sisters trying to understand each other and the world, past and present was quite powerful."

    - Keith Waits, BroadwayWorld (2020)

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