Women’s world: Girls rule in Charlottesville Playwrights Collective’s presentation of The O’Malley Gambit. Local playwright Kate Monaghan weaves drama, power, and feminism into the story of a meeting between Ireland’s clan leader Grace O’Malley and England’s Queen Elizabeth in the late 1500s. What begins as a negotiation for the release of O’Malley’s son, imprisoned and […]
Women’s world: Girls rule in Charlottesville Playwrights Collective’s presentation of The O’Malley Gambit. Local playwright Kate Monaghan weaves drama, power, and feminism into the story of a meeting between Ireland’s clan leader Grace O’Malley and England’s Queen Elizabeth in the late 1500s. What begins as a negotiation for the release of O’Malley’s son, imprisoned and […]
Tale spin: Miriam Gordon-Stewart and Victory Hall Opera take on Hadyn’s 1784 opera Armida with a fresh perspective. The original is a love story of a crusader and enchantress, and Armida’s mission is to seduce, while the soldier’s is to resist. Gordon-Stewart’s version tells the story of an opera troupe “through the lens of a […]