An expressionist parable about an ordinary young woman who lives in a mechanized, materialistic world. A modern Everywoman, Helen works in a boring office, marries her boss who offers her financial security, finds motherhood oppressive, and has a lover who abandons her. Machinal presents the life of a young woman who asks an impersonal society, “Is nothing mine?”
| Day | Date | Time |
| Thursday | March 12 | 7:30 |
| Friday | March 13 | 7:30 |
| Saturday | March 14 | 7:30 |
| Sunday | March 15 | 2:00 |
| Thursday | March 19 | 7:30 |
| Friday | March 20 | 7:30 |
| Saturday | March 21 | 7:30 |
| Sunday | March 22 | 2:00 |
Sophie Treadwell, writer of Machinal, was a leading playwright and journalist in the early 20th century, but was largely forgotten until a renaissance of her work in the 1990s. She was a pioneer in both theatre and journalism, pushing the boundaries of what was expected of, and possible for, women during her lifetime. As the Daily Telegraph wrote in 1993, “Treadwell is one of those fascinating people whose life was full of adventure but about whom little was ever recorded.”
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