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She Fights for the Motherland: Rewriting the History of Soviet Women in World War II 2021

She Fights for the Motherland: Rewriting the History of Soviet Women in World War II   2021

  The live reading of She Fights for the Motherland took place on October 14, 2021 at the Central Madison Public Library.  A Q&A after the reading was led by UW-Madison History Department professors Francine Hirsch and Kathryn Ciancia, both

David Simmons April 16, 2021December 7, 2022 Past Productions, Russians Read more

Acting Un-American – 2020 – An audio performance

Acting Un-American – 2020 – An audio performance

Acting Un-American – HUAC and the Federal Theatre Project Fermat’s adaptation of the testimony of Hallie Flanagan before the House Un-American Activities Committee With live theater a fevered dream in the midst of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Fermat’s recorded Acting

David Simmons November 1, 2020December 10, 2020 Past Productions Read more

Another Evening with James Baldwin – 2020

Another Evening with James Baldwin – 2020

 Fermat’s Last Theater presents   August 13, 2020, Cafe Coda Madison Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson Program Lawd, How Come Me Here – Negro spiritual – sung by Quanda Johnson From Giovanni’s Room – read by Melvin Hinton The

David Simmons August 25, 2020September 12, 2024 Past Productions Read more

An Evening with James Baldwin – 2019

An Evening with James Baldwin – 2019

  Photo: Allen Warren – Wikimedia Commons Fermat’s Last Theater presents An Evening with James Baldwin Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson November 14, 2019, Urban League of Greater Madison Program Letter to My Nephew and a passage from Giovanni’s

David Simmons November 20, 2019September 12, 2024 Past Productions Read more

Anna Akhmatova and the Engineers of the Human Soul – 2019

Anna Akhmatova and the Engineers of the Human Soul – 2019

Anna Akhmatova and the Engineers of the Human Soul   Cast and Crew Anna Akhmatova – Brette Olpin Nadezhda Mandelstam – Mya Kahler Ensemble roles – Ari Pollack Music – Charlie Lynch Script by David Simmons Direction by David Simmons

David Simmons August 6, 2019October 6, 2020 Past Productions Read more

Acting Un-American – 2018

Acting Un-American

Acting Un-American – Fermat’s adaptation of the testimony of Hallie Flanagan before the House Un-American Activities Committee   Cast and Crew Hallie Flanagan Maggie Schenk Martin Dies Alex Hancock Joe Starnes Steffen Silvis J. Parnell Thomas Nick Barovic-Hancock Harry Hopkins

David Simmons April 7, 2018August 17, 2019 Past Productions Read more

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"Ways of Seeing." Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin"

The Arts Generate a Lot of Money. So Why are Artists Broke?" Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin

‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron

The Songs And Stories Of Working-Class Hero Joe Hill

Hovering Above the Abyss: An Evening With Franz Kafka

Quanda Johnson reads James Baldwin

James Baldwin and the N-word

An Evening With James Baldwin (Tone Madison)

Bertolt Brecht and the Artist's Duty to Truth (WORT)

Mother Courage Alone at Fermat’s Last Theater in Madison by Brandy E. Wilcox, ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, Issue 1 2018

Acting Un-American on WORT on Labor Radio – April 7, 2018

‘Mother Courage' unplugged Fermat theater group pares down Brecht's classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – Sept. 23, 2017

Scripting "The Trial": Local writer converts a Kafka classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – June 23, 2016

Free theater: Fermat’s Last Theater Company stages an edgy tale of class, sex and power by Catherine Capellaro, The Isthmus – June 9, 2015

Fermat's Last Theater Company sets a genderqueer "Troilus and Cressida" in a circus ring by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 8, 2014

Fermat's Last Theater Company makes a strong debut with "The Merchant of Venice" by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 3, 2013

The new kid on the block: Meet Fermat's Last Theater Company
by Jessica Steinhoff, The Isthmus – August 2, 2013

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