03/30/2015
Native women interrupt sexual and domestic violence brought on by colonial r**e, in SLIVER OF A FULL MOON, tomorrow at 6pm at the Yale Law School Auditorium.
"On March 31, Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, in collaboration with Yale Native students and faculty, will host a staged reading of Sliver of a Full Moon. The play documents the grassroots movement that led to the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which included a new provision that allows tribes to prosecute non-Native offenders who commit certain assault crimes.
"The survivors who testified in front of Congress were interviewed for this play and their stories were transcribed as a part of the narrative. Dianne Millich (Southern Ute), Lisa Brunner (White Earth Ojibwe), and Billie Jo Rich (Eastern Band Cherokee) will reprise their roles to tell their stories once again, accompanied by a full cast of professional and undergraduate Native actors to tell this impactful story. This production will mark the two-year anniversary of the passage of the VAWA Reauthorization by bringing an underrepresented narrative to the stage."
Read the full preview by student actor and coordinator Reed Bobroff ES'16: https://downatyale.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/preview-sliver-of-a-full-moon/
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On March 31, Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, in collaboration with Yale Native students and faculty, will host a staged reading of Sliver of a Full Moon. The play documents the grassroots m...
