A new book, She Persisted, includes Cynthia L. Cooper’s play performed for Remember the Women Institute.
She Persisted: Thirty 10-Minute Plays by Women Over Forty (Applause/Rowman and Littlefield) includes Cynthia L. Cooper’s “At The Train Station in Munich,” which was credited with a performance for Remember the Women Institute.
Cynthia L. Cooper
At the Train Station in Munich by Cynthia L. Cooper, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser, was part of Remember the Women Institute’s program on Women, Theatre, and the Holocaust, with the theme of Women and Resistance, on April 26, 2017. The event was held at the Center for Jewish History in New York, co-sponsored by the American-Jewish Historical Society.
With Nazi soldiers all around, a Jewish-German underground worker summons an inner strength while awaiting a train at a Munich station in 1938 that will take her to safety in Paris. Abby Royle and Sarah Baskin portrayed two incarnations of the young Jewish member of the resistance. The play is based on the true story of Gisa Peiper Konopka.
She Persisted: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays by Women over Forty is a collection of plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. It is edited by Lawrence Harbison, with an introduction by Theresa Rebeck and a preface by Jacquelyn Reingold. Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ and playwrights over forty, and their allies, whose goal is their inclusion in theater. The term “women+” refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers, and trans. This is the generation excluded at the outset of their careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. The group celebrates diversity in theater, and works to call attention to the negative impact of age discrimination alongside gender, race, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theatre and beyond.
Globe Pequot / Applause
Pages: 328 • Trim: 5¼ x 7¾
978-1-4930-6129-7 • Paperback • November 2021 • $21.95