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ROE | Theatre Series

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Roe was originally commissioned in 2016 through the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions program. That first production then traveled to Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep. The world has changed and Lisa Loomer has reworked the play to reflect current events including the Summer 2022 Supreme Court Decision.

The play travels through many landscapes evoking different Americas. Roe v. Wade was conceived in a pizza parlor, argued in the Supreme court - and has been debated ever since. There is a fundamental divide between the characters, which the production will evoke, including a large cultural divide.

Playwright Lisa Loomer is a Whidbey Island Hedgebrook alum, well known for co-writing the screenplay, Girl Interrupted. WICA is thrilled to be one of the first theatre’s in the country to secure the rights to the current script.

From the publisher: “For the first time in the play’s life, it’s not a look back at the history of Roe v Wade – the whole context has changed.”

Preview Oct 7 | 7:30 PM
October 8 | 7:30 PM
October 9 | 2:00 PM
October 13 | 7:30 PM
October 14 | 7:30 PM
October 15 | 7:30 PM
October 16 | 2:00 PM
October 20 | 7:30 PM
October 21 | 7:30 PM
October 22 | 7:30 PM

Evening shows:
WICA Star Ticket: $45
Standard Ticket: $30
20 for $20 Ticket: $20

Matinee shows:
WICA Star Ticket: $35
Standard Ticket: $25
20 for $20 Ticket: $20

Thursday shows and
Preview night are all
”Pay What You Will”
at the box office

Earlier Event: October 15
ROE | Theatre Series
Later Event: October 16
Tannehill Weavers in Concert

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.