Book by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek | Music and Lyrics by Barbara Damashek | Based on the book “The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art” by Patricia Cooper Baker and Norma Bradley Allen
Directed by Lani Brockman | Musically Directed by Kimberly Dare | Presented by Wendy & Jeremy Breiding
Performing live at Studio East in Kirkland February 3-5, 2023
QUILTERS blends a series of interrelated scenes into a rich mosaic which captures the sweep and beauty, the terror and joy, the harsh challenge and abiding rewards of frontier life. Illuminating stories contained in various patches or “blocks” with music, dance and drama, the action depicts the lot of women on the frontier: girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death. But, with this, there is also love, warmth, rich and lively humor and the moving spectacle of simple human dignity and steadfastness in the face of adversity.
Production content rated PG-13 for true stories of hardships faced by pioneer women including: childbirth, adoption, and death.