Event

Out of the Mouth of a Woman

Now that I am a "crone," I have a story to tell. Songs from the Irish and Scots folk music tradition from the viewpoint of a woman, visiting all of the stages of my own life as a woman--child, maiden, mother, and crone--a story with humor and courage, sadness and loss that includes my mother, grandmother, and our Irish ancestors.

The feeling of the show is a living room of friends at a song circle. Story leads to song, accompanied by acoustic guitars played by Claudia and Kat Eggleston. The venue is room 311 in The Irish-American Heritage Center, an intimate room with a fireplace.

Claudia Anderson is a Chicago singer/actor/musician who researches traditional music and psychology, including archetypes. She produced a CD of original songs, in dreams i can fly, in 2011, A voice and speech professor at The Theatre School at DePaul, she is a member of the Irish Studies faculty and works as a dialect coach in the theatre. "Out of the Mouth of a Woman" is her first solo theatre piece.
www.claudiaanderson.net

Kat Eggleston is an Vashon Island-based artist of great range who has elated and inspired audiences all over the world with her strong, clear voice, her masterful fingerstyle guitar technique, her research and interpretation of traditional music, and her powerful original songs. Kat has produced her own powerful solo show, The Cyclone Line, about her father's experiences growing up in Oklahoma in the 1930's.
www.kateggleston.com

Director Sean Kelly is the creative director of The New Colony. He is a Chicago-born writer and director who has also directed at Porchlight, Victory Gardens, Collaboration and the Old Town School of Folk Music.