Women’s Work Productions
Bringing untold stories from history to the stage
It started with some women from Texas. Women who weren’t willing to accept the harsher aspects of married life in 1866. They began to make their own living. When women did not work outside the home. They sold eggs, butter and cheese but they couldn’t pay their bills on such meager amounts, so they formed a common fund. Pooled their resources. And began to get ahead. As their common fund grew, so did their enterprises: chopping and selling firewood, doing the town’s laundry. Then the harsher aspects of married life intensified. So they moved in together, forming the first safe house for women. In 1870. In Texas. And went on to become so successful in business, they amalgamated a fortune. $200,000 in 1898. Seven million in today’s money.
They formed the first safe house for women. In 1870. In Texas. And they went on to become so successful in business, they amalgamated a fortune. $200,000 in 1898. Seven million in today’s money.
Sound inspiring? That’s what a group of actors from Skagit and Snohomish counties thought. They learned this story when they performed in the original play, Carried by the Current, by Nicola Pearson, about the Women’s Commonwealth of Belton, Texas, and they wanted others to learn the story, too. So they founded the nonprofit theater company, Women’s Work Productions, and began acting a few scenes from the play in bookstores and board rooms, auto dealerships and art centers. They grew their common fund to a place where they could do two productions of the play in Everett.
If you’d like the play brought to a theater near you, please put into WWP’s modern day equivalent of the common fund by scanning the donate now QR code on this page.
Because sometimes we need to look back to see the way forward.
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