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for The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Project will be held on Tuesday and
Thursday, January 8 and 10, 2008 at the Playhouse located at 12 S. Church
Street, <st1:City w:st="on">Schenectady</st1:City> starting at 7:30 PM.<B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>Based on survivor interviews,
eye-witness accounts and court transcripts, “The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Fire Project” is a dramatization of the worst industrial fire of it’s time, one
that ultimately led to sweeping reforms in worker’s rights and safety laws for
all. To many, it was the “9/11” of it’s time. As a dramatic piece, it is very
much like “The Laramie Project” and “The Trials of Oscar Wilde”.<SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>The play starts with the early garment worker
strikes of 1911, and then moves into the fateful day of the fire. Nine actors
perform the many characters involved in disaster, from those trapped inside the
building, to those who tried to help on the outside. The second act then
illustrates the courtroom battle that ensued between the victims and owners of
the factory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think “Law and
Order” ... with bribed witnesses, jury manipulation and outrageous court room
testimony...except it is all based on facts.<SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Each actor gets to play 4 roles. For example,
Actor 1 may play an Irish cop, a Jewish factory foreman, a leading attorney and
an eyewitness. Actress 1 may play a 16 year old Lithuanian factory worker, an
office accountant, a suffragette and a grieving mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A good resource to look at prior to
auditions would be www.ilr.cornell.edu/Trianglefire. This site contains many
helpful images and documents, including several used in writing this play. Or
simply do a search using the word “shirtwaist” and you will find hundreds of
sites on the topic. For more play related info please call Richard Roe
@577-3777.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See AOL's <A title="http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004" href="http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004" target="_blank">top rated recipes</A> and <A title="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aoltop00030000000003" href="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aoltop00030000000003" target="_blank">easy ways to stay in shape</A> for winter.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>