Events
Event Type [Inside] the Ford New Play Series
BATTLE HYMN
By Jim Leonard
Presented by Circle X Theatre Company
By Jim Leonard
Presented by Circle X Theatre Company
January 17 – February 21
From the mud and the blood of Fort Sumter to San Francisco and the summer of love, BATTLE HYMN is the incredible story of a girl who stays pregnant for 150 years.
The award-winning creative teams behind [Inside] hits The Shaggs, The Brothers Karamazov and Eurydice stage the world premiere of the latest from Jim Leonard (The Diviners). On the eve of The Civil War, sixteen-year-old Martha finds herself pregnant and ostracized. As Martha travels through and fights in the Civil War, she settles on one incontrovertible fact: She will not raise her baby in a blood-soaked, violent country. Martha stays pregnant for over a century, until she arrives in San Francisco in 1967. For a moment Martha thinks she’s landed in heaven, but before she knows it half the world is at war once again. “How can she bring her child into a world like this?”
Thursdays at 8 pm: January 15 (preview), 22, 29; February 5, 12, 19
Fridays at 8 pm: January 16 (preview), 23, 30; February 6, 13, 20
Saturdays at 8 pm: January 17 (Opening Night), 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21
Sundays at 2 pm & 7 pm: January 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15
The award-winning creative teams behind [Inside] hits The Shaggs, The Brothers Karamazov and Eurydice stage the world premiere of the latest from Jim Leonard (The Diviners). On the eve of The Civil War, sixteen-year-old Martha finds herself pregnant and ostracized. As Martha travels through and fights in the Civil War, she settles on one incontrovertible fact: She will not raise her baby in a blood-soaked, violent country. Martha stays pregnant for over a century, until she arrives in San Francisco in 1967. For a moment Martha thinks she’s landed in heaven, but before she knows it half the world is at war once again. “How can she bring her child into a world like this?”
Thursdays at 8 pm: January 15 (preview), 22, 29; February 5, 12, 19
Fridays at 8 pm: January 16 (preview), 23, 30; February 6, 13, 20
Saturdays at 8 pm: January 17 (Opening Night), 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21
Sundays at 2 pm & 7 pm: January 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15
CASTSuzy Jane Hunt
Bill Heck
Robert Manning Jr.
William Salyers
John Short
SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGN
Brian Sidney Bembridge
SOUND DESIGN
Crick S. Myers
COMPOSER
Michael Levine
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Josh Worth
PRODUCED BY
Tim Wright
Jennifer A. Skinner
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Camille Schenkkan
Diana Wyenn
COSTUME DESIGN
Dianne K. Graebner
PROPERTIES
Ali Hisserich
STAGE MANAGER
Kathleen Ressegger
Winter Partnership Program at the Ford Theatres
[Inside] the Ford season participants are part of the Ford’s Winter Partnership Program for Los Angeles County-based theater companies without permanent homes. The partners, chosen by a competitive application process, rent the theatre at a subsidized rate and receive promotional and technical assistance. Applications for the 2009-10 season will be available in January 2009 and are due in March 2009. For more information, email publicevents@arts.lacounty.gov.