Voices from the Battlefront

"I’ve often considered these women’s complaints trivial. I didn’t understand how it (domestic violence) starts, and how it escalates. I’ll have to be more careful weeding out the trivial from the substantial."--a judge (workshop participant)

Voices from the Battlefront is a day-long performance/workshop addressing domestic violence. Each workshop includes a performance of Roadside's play, Voices from the Battlefront, followed by story circles designed to help participants relate what they just saw to their own lives and to the life of their community.

Voices was created through a year-long residency with HOPE House, a women's shelter in Norton, Virginia. The performance tells the personal stories of victims and survivors of domestic violence in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. Woven with their stories are Appalachian folk tales and music that have been passed down orally in the mountains for generations, serving as warning tales and object lessons to listeners. The play is performed by Roadside Theater, community volunteers, and survivors of abuse.

Voices from the Battlefront is available as a full-day workshop only.

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