Each performance of the musical will take place at Roberts Studio Theatre at Scott Studies at Arts West.
The Department of Performing Arts presents its Winter Play, “The Inferior Sex” by Jacqueline E. Lawton for an eight-show run from Friday, Jan. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 22 and Tuesday, Jan. 31 through Saturday, Feb. 4 at Roberts Studio Theatre at Scott Studies at Arts West. Directed by Sarah Hankins, adjunct assistant professor of performing arts, the play takes place in the summer of 1972 as the聽battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment is ramping up across the nation.
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm is campaigning for president. And in midtown Manhattan, a group of women have created a magazine 鈥渇or feminists who love fashion.鈥 As the war in Vietnam intensifies and the Watergate scandal erupts, the charged political and social climate challenges friendships and the future of the magazine itself. Poignant and hilarious, 鈥淭he Inferior Sex鈥 looks at finding your politics, your community and your voice in an ever-changing world.
Content warning: The Inferior Sex is set in a women鈥檚 magazine in 1972. The women discuss issues of sexism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexuality, racism, microaggressions and systemic racism.
Performances
- Friday, January 20th, at 7:30 pm
- Saturday, January 21st, at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
- Sunday, January 22nd, at 2:00 pm
- Tuesday, January 31st, at 7:30 pm
- Wednesday, February 1st, at 7:30 pm
- Thursday, February 2nd, at 7:30 pm
- Friday, February 3rd, at 7:30 pm
- Saturday, February 4th, at 2:00 pm
The play is free to students, staff and faculty with a Phoenix Card; $15 for general public.聽Reservations may be made at聽.