Roe at Fountain Theatre

Roe

Fountain Theatre
5060 Fountain Avenue Hollywood

A hyper-staged reading of the fast-moving, powerful, poignant, and often humorous play by award-winning Lisa Loomer in response to the looming Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade. ROE is a powerful, poignant, and often humorous play that cuts through the headlines to reveal the real-life women behind the landmark 1973 case that gave women the right to safe, legal abortion. A veteran cast of TV, film and stage actors bring to life the complicated human beings behind the case, the challenging years that followed the court's fateful decision, and the polarization around the issue in America today. Don't miss this urgent L.A. theatre event.

Thru - Jul 10, 2022

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 323-663-1525

www.fountaintheatre.com/events/roe

Roe Reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Director Vanessa Stalling has done a fantastic job in presenting this hyper-staged reading. I am certain, under the current climate, there must be an enormous pressure to do right by the work. The play’s energy is focused and timing, crisp. I certainly do hope that she gets a chance to direct a fully staged version of this work in Los Angeles."

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- William C.

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

"...A powerful and poignant production, ROE recounts the story of the historical Supreme Court decision through the experiences of key players in the drama surrounding the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion, including Norma McCorvey (Kate Middleton) who was perhaps better known by pseudonym Jane Roe, and Sarah Weddington (Christina Hall) and Linda Coffee (Susan Lynskey), the attorneys who prepared and presented the case to the Supreme Court. Skillfully directed by Vanessa Stalling, ROE turns a possibly dry legal brief into a probing and intimate story of the people who lived it."

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- Elaine Mura

Showmag - Highly Recommended

"...Lisa Loomer's meticulously researched docu-drama presents Roe as an argument for choice while defending a woman's right to an abortion through the story of Norma McCorvey (Kate Middleton), the original "Jane Roe." Loomer evenly tells the twin trajectories of McCorvey's life journey, set against the life-long legal fight that attorney Sarah Weddington (Christine Hall) waged to keep Roe v. Wade in place."

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- Leigh Kennicott

Stage Raw - Recommended

"...Roe at The Fountain Theatre is an obituary. Like any good funeral, it is passionately felt and imbued with the appropriate gravity. It has moments of humor and levity. One may laugh, one may cry. Hearing “Roe was here,” freshly past tense, is devastating. The Fountain’s “hyper-staged reading” of Lisa Loomer’s play chronicling the Roe v. Wadecase and its aftermath, under the direction of Vanessa Stallings, was commissioned as a call to action after a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision was leaked in early May. Premiering the day after the fall of Roe, this production has become a memorial marking all we have lost. But that doesn’t mean it’s not still one of the most vitally important pieces of theater in Los Angeles."

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- Taylor Kass

Ticket Holders LA - Highly Recommended

"...The celebrated feminist playwright’s latest triumph is a brilliantly conceived, often surprisingly hilarious, sometimes shocking, and more frequently heartbreaking chronicle of the history of the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling which almost 50 years ago changed the course of America and sparked the challenging years following that decision."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Larchmont Buzz - Recommended

"...Last week’s overturning of Roe v. Wade was swiftly incorporated into Roe, a play by Lisa Loomer now receiving a powerful staged reading on the Fountain Theatre’s outdoor stage. A performance of the revised script just two days after the Supreme Court decision had the feel of a memorial service in honor of a divisive figure: while many onstage lamented the death of a long-respected right, others gleefully danced on its grave."

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- Laura Foti Cohen

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LA Splash - Highly Recommended

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