"Now That She's Gone" is a one-woman show written and performed by Ellen Snortland. In it, she explores the often wacky, irreverent and sometimes torturous relationship with her Norwegian-American mother. Join in celebrating the International Women’s Day by seeing her show on March 8 at Bancroft School, Washington D.C.
3/4/2008 :: Ellen Snortland was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in South Dakota. In addition to being a playwright, Ms. Snortland has throughout the years earned a law degree, been an actor, a journalist, written the book Beauty Bites Beast, renovated homes and been an activist for women's rights. Snortland co-founded the first all women theater company in the nation, Theater of Process, which was featured in an early issue of Ms. Magazine.
Not even remotely a mother bashing piece, "Now That She's Gone" has been described as a Lily Tomlin/Garrison Keilor/Eve Ensler hybrid, passionate, poignant and funny in turns. A memoir piece with Eleanor Roosevelt, sex, drugs and lutefisk, the play and performance has on earlier occations received rave reviews and standing ovations in California, New York, and Washington, D.C. In Gloria Steinem words, "Ellen Snortland's one-woman play, Now That She's Gone is what good theater is all about. Her funny and tragic, particular and universal story sends us home with a better understanding of our own."
Ellen Snortland’s performance will this time be hosted by Carol Middleton of DC IMPACT, DC Self Defense Karate Association and Krav Maga DC. It will be a fund-raising event to support the making of Ms. Snortland’s new documentary.
Time:
2 pm, March 8, 2008
Venue:
Bancroft School, 18th & Newton Streets NW, Washington D.C.
Tickets:
Suggested tax-deductible donation:
$10: student, senior, limited income; $25: general; $50: minimum for screen credit
Reservations: info@dcimpact.net or call 202-332-0765.
Tickets will also be available at the door if there still are seats. Reservations encouraged.