The Ford/Hill Project

By Waterwell: The Obie Award-winning theatre/media company Waterwell presents The Ford/Hill Project, a powerful and timely production tackling power, politics, and gender. 30 years apart, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford provoked a reckoning about who is given the power to shape the future of our country by telling the story of one of the most private moments of their lives in one of the most public settings imaginable: the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, respectively. With an ensemble of four actors speaking from the verbatim transcripts of these pivotal hearings, these two women’s stories can be seen side by side in a new light in Waterwell’s illuminating production.

As part of each performance, there will be a public conversation with thought leaders directly following the play.  A professionally staffed decompression space will also be available for all.

“The Ford/Hill Project performs one of theater’s most noble and necessary functions: to shine a light on character itself, to attune the populace to how a person’s acts betoken who they are, and to prompt the polis to pay attention.”—DC Theater Arts
 
Tickets: $30 general public | $20 Middlebury ID holders/PASS Members | $10 youth (under 21) | $5 Middlebury students. General admission. Tickets on sale in September: http://go.middlebury.edu/tickets
 
Approximate running time: 70 minutes (no intermission) with a 30-minute post-show conversation
 
About the Artists:
Waterwell creates theater, film, and digital media that wrestles with complex civic questions, gathering people for cultural events that provoke, inspire, and build community.
 
Waterwell is dedicated to telling engrossing stories that can reach people across real and perceived divides. They produce their projects using an evolving set of best practices that are influenced by the principles of community organizing and movement building. This is part of an ongoing investigation into how storytelling can have the most relevance and impact in efforts to create a more just and humane society.
 
Waterwell’s projects manifest in more than one medium, but everything they do is infused with their love of the immediacy of live performance.
https://www.waterwell.org/
 
Program: 
The Ford/Hill Project
Cast: Amara James Aja, others TBD
Director & Co-Creator: Lee Sunday Evans
Co-Creator: Elizabeth Marvel
Co-Producer: ShowShow
Associate Director: Francesca Sabel
Co-Sound Designer & Audio Editor: Jeffrey Salerno
Co-Sound Designer: Mikhail Fiksel
Lighting Designer: Oona Curley
Costume Coordinator: Amanda Roberge
Production Stage Manager: Katie Young
 
Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series, the Theatre Department, the Civil Rights and Title IX Office, and the Rothrock Family Residency Fund.
 
Learn more about the artists:
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@waterwell_org
Watch a video: https://youtu.be/duvjWtuScWw?si=QDDODhkGixu094bl
 
Performance subject to change.