Developed at the Z SPACE STUDIO
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE

directed by Jayne Wagner
written and performed by Anne Galjour

*SYNOPSIS

EXPLORE THE LAST GREAT TABOO.  You Can’t Get There From Here exposes the reality of class and cultural divide in contemporary America.  In this riveting one-woman show, Bay Area performer Anne Galjour takes us on a journey through a New England community, where she reveals the basic fears, frustrations, and aspirations that tie together everyday life. 

Nationally acclaimed playwright and artist Anne Galjour immersed herself in Dartmouth College’s physically close, but economically divided rural New England backyard, and, through more than 100 interviews, documented a marked class divide in New Hampshire and Vermont that mirrors a national class divide. “People are very reluctant to talk about class. This experience has forever changed the way I write and teach,” said Galjour.   The characters in You Can’t Get There From Here emerged from the personal testimony of people within Upper Valley communities who met with Galjour in story circles to voice their own experiences with socio-economic class.

Hopkins Center Programming Director Margaret Lawrence said, “This play depicts a group of familiar characters, people struggling with rent, mortgages, and keeping up appearances amidst bewildering changes in their community… Galjour reveals deep emotional centers and human complexities of their situations… she engages us in a compassionate understanding of class through the art of theater.”

You Can't Get There From Here is funded in part by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England; and a partnership with co-commissioner The Flynn Center, with the support of the National Performance Network's Creation Fund. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

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