Quilters is
a play with song and music that celebrates the pioneer women
who settled the prairie. It is based on the book The
Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by
Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen. It was nominated
for 6 Tony Awards.
The show’s strength is in its unassuming honesty. It creates
moods, more than it does drama, and its best moods are
straightforward, like the people it is celebrating. The
script is divided into 16 sections or "blocks," each dealing
with a theme such as childbirth, school days, windmills,
courtship, weddings, country roads, religion, and even log
cabins. At the start of each section, one of the actresses
unfolds a block of quilting, which incorporates that
section’s theme into its design. Handsome and tidy pieces of
work, the blocks combine at the end to make one huge quilt
which, when raised high, is the flag of pioneer womanhood.
We are looking forward to this!!!
Anet & Debbie