Theaters, teachers and the general public might not know it, but dames have been writing plays for centuries. While more recent female playwrights are relegated to a paltry 20 percent of productions per year, the women of history, it often seems, are never produced at all. If they were ever in the books, they've been erased. Theatre Halycon fights back with its Alcyone Festival, a rotating series of works by early female playwrights designed to examine their roots, their continuing relevance and, you know, remind people that they existed. Don't miss "Callimuchus" by Hrosvitha (Hros-who? 935-1002), a passion play about a chaste nun and the obsessive rapist who tries to violate her corpse. It's that rare event that combines feminism, religion and necrophilia.
See full schedule at www.halcyontheatre.org/alcyoneschedule
