TheatreTruck and Historic Northampton present
The Mill Project: woman, work & resistance
August 1 – 11, 2024
Staged at the historic Shepherd Barn at 66 Bridge Street, Northampton, Mass.
directed by Brianna Sloane
designed by Elizabeth Pangburn
featuring Tahmie Der, Emma Friend, Tracy Grammer, Jess Rawlings, and Christine Stevens
stage managed by Nikki Beck
Historic Northampton is pleased to present The Mill Project: women, work & resistance, a play with music by TheatreTruck, originally performed in 2017 and updated to reflect new scholarship.
The Mill Project remembers and embodies women’s experiences of work and resistance in the textile mills of nineteenth-century New England through a performance-collage drawn from letters, newspapers, pamphlets and etiquette books. Woven into a tapestry of primary source text, original music and movement, the play stages the mill operatives’ lived experiences and the rhetoric of womanhood, independence, enslavement, and abolition that surrounded them.
Sliding scale admission: $15, $25, & $50
Content Advisory: The play includes themes of death, pregnancy, and abortion and is recommended for adult audiences.
Tickets Available Here
