TheatreTruck was founded in 2013 by Elizabeth Pangburn and Brianna Sloane. Now an arts collective and organizing tool, TheatreTruck creates site-specific and mobile performance from the historical record to promote reproductive and environmental justice. They have used their platform to host a monthly Meet & Greet for artists in the Pioneer Valley, initiate the Mother Artist Summit and create a 24-hour Performance to fundraise for #closethecamps. Read more at thetheatretruck.com
The Emily Dickinson Project 2015
A co-production of TheatreTruck and The Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
Using text drawn from personal letters, newspaper articles, advertisements in Godey’s Lady’s Book, photographs and institutional records, The Mill Project embodied the voices and experiences of the first generation of women to work in the textile mills in 18th century Massachusetts, Sojourner Truth, 20th century union organizers, and reproductive rights activists.
Performed in Leeds, MA, and workshopped in Greenfield, MA