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World Premiere/Hop Co-Commission

ANNE GALJOUR

You Can't Get There From Here

(working title)

Jayne Wenger, director
David Dower and Jayne Wenger, dramaturge

Friday, November 7 • 8 pm
Saturday, November 8 • 2 pm & 8 pm
Warner Bentley Theater
$24 • Dartmouth students $5
General admission

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Begun in 2006, the Hopkins Center's Class Divide Initiative launches its final year with an extraordinary play reaching the very core of how class plays out in the Upper Valley. After its premiere at the Hop, Anne Galjour's new work tours to Burlington and Brattleboro, VT; North Adams, MA; and receives a run in San Francisco. Class Divide is this country's first initiative to explore socio-economic class through the eyes of artists; for more information about this year's events, please see hop.dartmouth.edu/classdivide.

After two sold-out readings at the Hop in Spring '08, Anne Galjour presents the final version of her one-woman play—a fictionalized cross-section of the Upper Valley's class divide. With a subtle arch of her back, shift of her balance or change of her intonation, Galjour transforms herself into multiple characters of various socioeconomic backgrounds, living on the same hillside but voicing separate fears, joys and frustrations. Galjour entwines their lives together to intimately expose the complex interdependence of their identities and histories. All the individuals—developed from two years of “story circles” with Northern New Englanders—are candidly portrayed, inviting audiences to understand and share the common human desires to survive and flourish. Galjour's show is a testament to the power of theater to connect a community with a sense of place and a growing awareness of class.


Part of Class Divide, a three-year Hopkins Center initiative examining social and economic class issues.

"You Can't Get There From Here (working title)" is funded in part by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England; and a partnership with co-commissioner The Flynn Center, with the support of the National Performance Network's Creation Fund. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).