Two Steps Forward
Ross Zentner
Lucy Tan performs one of the monologues in "Two Steps Forward," a Forward Theater Company production.
Forward Theater Company’s monologue festival is back for one weekend only, showcasing world premiere short plays by playwrights from Madison and across the country. Planned to commemorate the centennial of women gaining the right to vote, Two Steps Forward also addresses the subjects of immigration, LGTBQ history, electoral politics, race, and sexual freedom.
press release: Presented in Promenade Hall at Overture Center
Performances: Thursday 6/20 at 7:30pm, Friday 6/21 at 7:30pm, Saturday 6/22 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm, Sunday 6/23 at 2:00pm.
Tickets
Tickets are $25 for this general admission festival. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased online at forwardtheater.com, in person at Overture Center’s ticket office, or by calling (608) 258-4141.
Forward Theater Company will conclude the celebration of their 10th anniversary season with the Two Steps Forward Monologue Festival, June 20-23 in Overture’s Promenade Hall. Forward Theater’s biennial monologue festivals always have a unique theme, celebrating the many different ways creative authors can approach a common subject. Forward accepts monologue submissions from writers in Wisconsin and around the country to create this one-weekend only event, and audiences get to see the entire collection of monologues at each performance.
This season, the festival coincides with the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Two Steps Forward monologue festival will encompass a wide variety of perspectives on and interpretations of Wisconsin’s long progressive tradition.
Forward Theater is collaborating with the League of Women Voters, who is organizing a program and Capitol Square march on Sunday, June 23, to commemorate Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. The event begins at 12:00pm at the Forward statue on the Square and will culminate with an attendance of the 2:00pm performance of the monologue festival at Overture.
The monologues, their authors and locations:
Wisconsin Blue Book by Eric Appleton; Madison
Susan B. Anthony by Andy Bayiates; Evanston, Illinois
The Vote is Just the Beginning by Takelya Benton; Madison
Forward by Erin Celello; Madison
Butterfly Wings by Coleman; Mineral Point
Awake by Sandy Dietrick; Brooklyn, New York
A New Voice in Politics by Marcia Jablonski; Ft. Myers, Florida
Dive Flow by Karen Moeller; Madison
Cranberry League Stats by Ellen Monroe; Stoughton
#WyattCameron by Jake Penner; Madison
Down There by Lucy Wang; Glendale, California
Lottery by Amy White; Mount Vernon, Iowa