Lizzie Olester '79, Louise Smith '77, Peggy Pettitt '74
Three Alums perform their experimental drama at The Foundry
In Language of Dolls, three firends, and Antioch Alums, find a set of dolls in a cabin and animate them to tell their experiences with race. The new play premiered at Antioch College's Foundry Theatre in Yellow Springs in October 2024.
The trio are longtime friends who went to Antioch College together in the 1970s and went on to careers in the theater. Louise Smith and Lizzie Olesker are white, and Peggy Pettitt is Black. In the drama, they play versions of themselves. Over this one day, the women struggle with the history of race in their lives and in America.
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