Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre (NFT) is set to host two solo plays by seasoned New York actors: The Crone Barrier by June Ballinger, produced by Impact Theatre NYC, and Just Me by Perri Gaffney, produced by Perri Tales, in a double bill titled Two Women, Two Lifetimes, One Evening.
The evening offers a thought-provoking look at two women's lives. One woman, at 70, is told she has never reacted to life the way a woman should, and she finds an answer among the stars. The other remembers being married at age five, outraged by Dick and Jane, and shaken by a summer in the Jim Crow South. Written and performed by the women who lived them, the two pieces offer different routes to the same question: what does it take to become fully yourself?
