our 22nd season
Read the script of The Education of a Rake.
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." –The Equal Rights Amendment
- The ERA was first proposed in 1923–without success.
- It took almost 50 years before Congress finally voted to approve the amendment, but it fell just 3 states short of ratification.
- It's been re-proposed in every session of Congress since 1982, and yet the Equal Rights Amendment is still not part of the U.S. Constitution.
Now Congressman Roy Armstrong has a plan to pass the ERA once and for all. But he has a problem–and she’s about to go public! Will he go down in history as the "feminist" who won equal rights for women in America? Or as a scoundrel who couldn’t keep his privates in his pants?
A new play from local playwright William Bivins (winner of the 2009 Bay Area Critics Circle award for best original script, Pulp Scripture) whose work "bristles with an offbeat irreverent inventiveness" (Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle).
Read about ERA history and the "3–state strategy" for ratification
From the Washington Post:
Political sex scandals: Who survives, who crashes and burns?
Click here to view the trailer.
Written by
William Bivins
Directed by
Jan Zvaifler
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 5pm
Tickets: $25 online
(Advance sales by phone thru
Brown Paper Tickets: 800.838.3006)
$25 – $14 sliding scale at the door
Pay-what-you-can at the door:
Previews (July 26 & 27), Aug 2 & 9
Post-show Talk-backs:
Playwrights Night, July 29
Audience Talk-back, Aug 19
Information & subscriber reservations:
510.558.1381
A Central Works Method Play developed
in collaboration with Sally Dana, Gary Graves,
Gabrielle Patacsil, Eric Reid,
Gregory Scharpen and Jan Zvaifler.
Ensemble
*Sally Dana
Gabrielle Patacsil
Eric Reid
Stephanie Henderson
stage management
Tammy Berlin
costumes
Gary Graves
lights
Gregory Scharpen
sound
The play runs 75 minutes
with no intermission
This production is made possible with
the generous support of the
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
and Wilder Green Fund.
(* member AEA)
