As part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Feminism Club at IUPUC, in conjunction with IUPUC’s Office of Student Affairs, Turning Point Domestic Violence Services, and the Indiana Playwrights Circle (IPC), has launched Voices Against Domestic Violence: A Showcase of Monologues for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The project features a webpage containing video monologues written by Indiana authors that reveal each writer’s unique insight into the lasting effects of domestic violence.
The monologues are available for viewing through October 31, 2020 (free).
The authors and the works presented include:
- Call from Sarah by Mia Baillie
- Silencium by Patty Blanchfield
- Be Water by Wendy Brown
- Sara by Michael Donohue
- Breaking the Cycle by Marcia Eppich-Harris
- The Overcomer by Janice Morris Neal
- Starting Small / The Survivor by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
- NOLA – 60 Years Old, Female by Georgeanna Smith Wade
- She Said NO! Let her Go, Let Her Grow, Let Her Glow by Latrice Young
The Indiana Playwrights Circle worked with the authors to create videos of each monologue, using members to direct and perform them. One of the authors, IPC Member Marcia Eppich-Harris, not only wrote a monologue herself , but was the creative director behind the filming. “The process of putting this show together has really been a journey — not only in confronting the history of violence that I wrote about, but also in working with the other writers and actors to bring these stories to life,” said Eppich-Harris. “We wanted to make people aware of the suffering that individuals go through in domestic violence situations, but we also wanted to honor the courage that it takes to heal from them and to consciously break cycles of violence.”
Read the rest of the press release from IUPUC Newsroom.