This coming October, Resistance Theater will presenting a new show, a musical revue entitled “Songs of Resistance.”  As our show An American Pageant… illustrates, music, and especially song, has long played an important role inspiring people to resist tyranny in its many forms.  For our next installment in the theater of resistance, we will bring those songs to the fore, through a revue that will trace the history of resistance through song, showing how people around the world have deployed music in the fight to achieve a just society.  American songs of resistance to slavery and in support of the Civil Rights Movements, of resistance to plutocracy and in support of worker rights, of resistance to unjust wars and in support of peace movements, will be joined with songs of peoples struggling for their freedom and independence and justice, from Ireland to South Africa. 

“Songs of Resistance” will be performed in the Auditorium Theater of the Women’s University Club in Seattle, on Friday October 16 and Saturday 17, and in the performance hall of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Church in Edmonds on Sunday October 18.  Tickets will be going on sale after Labor Day.  Watch this space for further details about what we hope will be an exciting opportunity to rediscover the power of song in the cause of freedom and equality and justice, for all peoples!