Sonoma County’s contribution to the inaugural Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival is a two-weekend mini-festival being presented by 6th Street Playhouse under the umbrella title Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks. With performances from February 28 through March 8, this celebration of women’s place in history has been written, produced, and directed by a fully female-identifying team of local theatre artists.

The performances, which feature multiple performers, are titled Women at Large, Women at Home, and Devising Women. Each focuses on a different aspect of Women’s History and will be performed in repertory with each other.

So what can audiences expect? According to Festival Producer Beulah Vega, “It is over 40 female-identifying artists (including designers and crew) of all ages, colors, sizes, sexualities, and creeds that have come together to empower each other through the telling of 13 plays all trying to answer the question: What does a woman have to do to make history? Women at Large deals with the question at an international level, Women at Home deals with the question at a local level and features six local playwrights and five local poets writing new and commissioned works to answer the question. Devising Women takes a different approach and tries to find the answer to who we are as women as we age, through a devised piece pulling from all of their collective backgrounds, knowledge, and experiences.”

The offerings include meet-and-greets, performances and talk-backs with the local playwrights and a powerhouse all-female direction and production team. All poetry in the pieces will be be performed by Rachel Wynne and Nayla Makinano.