Two Powerful Women come to New York to tell their stories
By: BWW
News Desk Sep. 30, 2016
Two Powerful Women come to New York this Fall
Look for them on 13th Street and at the United Solo Festival
Leigh Curran returns to NYC with WHY WATER FALLS, a play about motherhood at 70 and living to tell the tale at the United Solo Festival, September 30 @ 9:00 pm; and June Ballinger presents REMEMBRANCE DAY, the story of code breaking, secrets, memory and loss in WWII England, at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre, September 11 - 22
The 13th Street Repertory Theater, a curator of numerous solo shows, hosted the premiere of Leigh Curran's stirring one-woman show, WHY WATER FALLS last fall. Currently enjoying a successful run in California, "Why Water Falls" concerns a fiction writer who, in the process of writing a true story, is brought face to face with her ambivalence about motherhood and the unexpected consequences she encounters, which her "children" won't let her forget. A smart, funny, thought provoking evening that looks at making peace with controversial life choices in a whole new way. Ms. Curran, a prominent actress and playwright, takes her audience on a journey through career, marriage, sexuality - of all types - and motherhood - of all types. This piece will now be part of the United Solo Theatre Festival on September 30 @ 9:00 pm on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, New York City.An 80-year-old former Bletchley Park code breaker, holding her oath of silence for over 50 years, attends a Remembrance Day ceremony in England. Now, today, what will happen if she voices her secrets to her daughter? Inspired by the letters and personal diary of Nancy Annan Ballinger and discovered by her daughter after her death, Remembrance Day is a story about the cost of secrecy and how much one woman is willing to pay. Bletchley Park was the central site for Britain's codebreakers during World War II. The most famous of the cipher systems to be broken at Bletchley Park was the Enigma. And then there was Colossus, the world's first electronic computer that could decode personal messages sent by Hitler to his top battlefield commanders. Many believe today that the success of Colossus shortened the war by at least 2 years. Nancy Annan worked with the team that created Colossus. She and all engaged in codebeaking had to sign the Official Secrets Act. While most of that information was declassified in the late 1970s, many men and women were never comfortable with "telling all" and were proud to be remembered as "Churchill's geese that never cackled"
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