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Pass the Mic: We Are HER

Local nonprofit We Are HER is bringing their podcast to the Verge Theater stage for a one-night event called We Are HER Live. Host and domestic violence advocate Emily Kempe will sit down with a local survivor to discuss her story and her healing journey. This show will discuss sensitive content related to violence. Please bring cash, because along with ticket sales, proceeds from the hosted raffle will go to We Are HER's 2020 Survivor Retreat.

To learn more about We Are HER visit their website or listen to season one of We Are HER's podcast.

Tickets are $10 and go directly to We Are HER. In addition, scholarships are available. Contact hilary@vergetheater.com for more information.

Seating is super limited, so grab your tickets now!

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The Flick

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Flick by Annie Baker offers up a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. The play revolves around a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, where three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen.

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Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England

"Dean Wreen is not having a good week. Her college is in dire financial straits and a plan to close its tiny, all-but-forgotten natural history museum is sending unexpected shock waves across campus and out into the local community. At home, her ex-lover, Greer, is staying with her—sending shock waves of a different sort through her relationship with her current (and much younger) girlfriend, Andromeda. Town-gown relations are in tatters! The local newspaper is erupting in protest! Even the awful, historically inaccurate dioramas in the museum have started mouthing off! A screwball sex comedy about the perils of monogamy, certainty, and academic administration."

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