Let Women War presented by We Three at Chase Park

"Let Women War" highlights warrior women, in two new Elizabethan style verse plays. In the first, "The Passion of Boudicca", after the death of the Iceni tribe's king, Queen Boudicca was left to face the Roman incursion alone. The Empire demanded she bend the knee to Nero, which she refused. To bring her to heel, the Roman soldiers sacked her town, scourged her, and sexually assaulted her daughters. But Boudicca was not easily broken. She united the local tribes and wrecked the Roman army for years. But the army has rebuilt, and has come to end the conflict once and for all. In the second, "The Wayward Women", Cordelius, a banished lover, and his bondman Julian wash up on Amosa, an island where women rule and men are the gentler sex. Duchess Penti Celia welcomes them to the Festival of the New Moon, but the celebrations are marred by the hilarious dueling (physical, verbal, and psychological) of the wastrel knights Dame Anu (the virtuous) and Dame Grendela (the flatulent).