When We Were Young and Unafraid

by Sarah Treem

The Naples Players, Florida, USA

Nominated for Best Play, Best Direction of a Play (Emma Canalese), Best Performer in a Play (Paulette Olivia), Best Supporting Performer in a Play (Amy Hughes and Shelley Gothard), and Best Sound Design in a Play or Musical (Sean McGinley) Broadway World Regional Awards 2022

In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. But to Agnes’s dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.

Listen to interview with WCGU News (PBS and NPR for Southwest Florida) about our production here

Director Emma Canalese

Writer Sarah Treem

Set Design Starlet Jacobs Sound Designer Sean McGinley

Costume Designer Dot Auchmoody Lighting Designer Davis Parker

Stage Manager Alivia Cross

Performed by Paulette Olivia, Amy Hughes, Giszelle Kirton, Shelley Gothard, Bernardo Santana

Photography by Naples Creative