MCC Daily Tribune

Dr. Maria Brandt (English/Philosophy) Directs Barb Murphy Play

Dr. Maria Brandt (English/Philosohy) is directing local playwright Barb Murphy's At 70 as the featured event during the AAUW Bath Chapter's fundraising event this Saturday, October 5, 2 PM, at the First Presbyterian Church in Bath, NY. 

At 70 follows three second-wave feminists moving into the final stages of their lives. Joan and Mahoney grew up together in the Rochester area and navigated various threads of career, romance, family, education, religion, politics, and self-expression together through almost seven decades. Angela moved around the United States her entire life, but believes her most formative moments were at the small Catholic high school where she met Joan and Mahoney as a teenager. Now, recently widowed and in what appears to be the early stages of Alzheimer’s, Angela returns to Rochester to reunite with the friends closest to her heart. Through the course of the play, the three women must learn what it means to test the bonds that held them together in the past, and to face together an always uncertain future.

Tickets are $20 and proceeds support AAUW scholarships that benefit women. To purchase tickets, please call 607-329-3685. For more information, please email Maria Brandt (mbrandt@monroecc.edu). 

Anthony Leuzzi
English and Philosophy
10/01/2024