Aug. 9, 2010 issue
Women lift voices
By Mennonite Weekly Review staffCHICAGO — A group of Goshen, Ind., women performed the play Heavenly Voices July 14 at Living Water Community Church, a Mennonite Church USA congregation.
Debra Brubaker, Nancy Ryan, Joy Liechty Yoder, Julia Baker, Angela Noah, Chagan Sanathu and Robina Summers sing together at the end of their performance of the play Heavenly Voices July 14 at Living Water Community Church in Chicago. — Photo by Tim Nafziger
The original play, produced by Goshen women, tells of 14 U.S. women who are Cheyenne, Poarch Creek, African-American and Hispanic. They are among the global stories collected by the Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Project.
One of the play’s goals was for women to learn about cultures other than their own through the roles they portrayed, said Pat McFarlane, one of two women who conducted the oral history project.
Performances in Pennsylvania canceled because of a cast member’s illness are being rescheduled.
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