“First thing to know is that our production is very anachronistic; it’s not a history piece,” says director Brian Freeland. “Ludlow, 1914 unfolds over a single day — the 24 hours leading up to April 20, 1914, the date of the Ludlow Massacre. The characters that audiences see have no idea what is about to happen, no idea of the social or political or labor significance the day will hold. In order to tell our story, we go back and forth in time to give the massacre context.” The work, he adds, “attempts to explore not only the tragic nature of the 1914 struggle, but the underlying systems — capitalism, energy dependence, class, markets, immigration — that fed and still feed into labor conflicts.”
The play opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. and runs through September 28 at the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater, 3955 Regent Circle in Colorado Springs. Tickets, $35, are available at theatreworkscs.org or by calling 719-255-3232.
Thursdays-Sundays. Starts: Sept. 11. Continues through Sept. 28, 2014
