{"id":15008,"date":"2014-05-01T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2014-05-01T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:44:33","slug":"cant-scare-me-the-story-of-mother-jones-coming-to-uccs-theatreworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=15008","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones coming to UCCS THEATREWORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obie award-winning stage and screen actress Kaiulani Lee will bring her one-woman play, \u201cCan\u2019t Scare Me: The story of Mother Jones\u201d to select Colorado theaters including UCCS May 12-17.<\/p>\n

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Lee\u2019s play tells the story of Irish immigrant Mary Harris \u201cMother\u201d Jones, a labor activist in the early 20th Century who agitated for improved working conditions and rights for miners, steelworkers, textile workers and others. She was actively involved with the events that led to the coal miners\u2019 strike of 1913-14 in southern Colorado, which included the Ludlow Massacre in 1914.<\/p>\n

The performance received rave reviews when it debuted on Washington, D.C., stages in 2011. The Washington Post called it a \u201ctart, handsomely-wrought solo show,\u201d saying that \u201cLee makes the early miners’ and steelworkers’ strikes feel real and immediate, especially the murderous violence unleashed against unionized workers in the \"Can't<\/a>early 20th Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

DC Theater Scene called it \u201csimply the best one-person show we\u2019ve seen in many a year. [Ms. Lee] is at home with the character she embodies, behaving gently and solicitously when her labor union charges need grandmotherly advice, but then erupting into a full-blown radical rabble-rouser when she climbs the barricades. It’s an awesome performance, a phenomenal realization of a bigger-than-life historical character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UCCS performance will be:<\/p>\n