Labor & Employment Law

Mother Jones Takes to the Stage

By Mike Hall

?Eighty years after her death, Mother Jones’ howl for safe mines and responsible corporations still echoes,? writes LA Weekly?s Amy Nicholson in a review of  the play, ?The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of the American Dream.?

Written by David Christie and performed by Actors? Equity (AEA) member Therese Diekhans, the one-woman drama won the Best Solo Show award at the Hollywood Fringe festival in June.

It’s now set for two more performances in Everett, Wash., (just a 26-mile shot from Seattle, straight up I-5) next weekend, Sept. 11 and 12. The performances are half-price for union members and free for union members on strike (location info here).

Writing in the LA Theater Review, Kat Primeau says Diekhans? charming, studied performance:

playfully brings to life 15 characters, from children mill workers to John D. Rockefeller, as the audience learns the true cost of Big Business cost-cutting in early 20th century mining towns. Mother Jones? rallying speeches on apathy and revolution are particularly poignant amidst contemporary woes.

Visit Diekhans’ website here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 05, 2010 (boomark / email).