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Lucía: But is it true that hope has died?

A play featuring the life, poetry, and articles of Lucía Sánchez Saornil and the Mujeres Libres

by Stardust Doherty

Synopsis of Play

Reaching adulthood in a tumultuous period leading up to the Civil War in Spain of the 1930s, lesbian anarchist revolutionary Lucía Sánchez Saornil joins anarchists organizing in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, National Confederation of Labor). Women organizers, including Lucía’s friends Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón, experience gender-based oppression from both within and outside of the anarchist worker movement. Debating anarchist male leadership and seeking to center the movement on women’s liberation as well as class issues, they are inspired to form an intersectional women’s movement organization called Mujeres Libres (“Free Women”). Their personal and collective struggles for liberation in a period of rising fascism foreshadow and parallel our struggles today.

Content Warnings

This play includes depictions and reenactments of scenes of military action, massacre, and war, including weapons fire and burning of a building, as well as erotic poetry, mentions of prostitution, and scenes of harassment of women. Depending on the production, there may be flashing lights.