Up From the Ashes by Kate McGrath

UP FROM THE ASHES Tragedy
and Change asks the question: why do workers face risk of death or
injury even today, in 2013, when we have such examples from our past to
motivate real and lasting change?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Fire forms the central part of this one-woman show that examines the
labor movement’s efforts before and after the 1911 tragedy, from
multiple points of view—factory owners, protesters like Mother Jones and
Rose Schneiderman, and the immigrant workers themselves. The American
Dream belonged to all of them. So what went wrong?
PDC at Iron Age Residency.
featuring Isa St. Clair
Running January 9-12 at The Centre Theater as part of the Independent Voices Festival and then January 17-19 in Philadelphia. at Off Broad Street on Sansom St