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Molly's Hammer

  • Tammy Ryan
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1980s
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: MQ7

In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Penn., and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of nuclear arsenal.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 110 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Penn., and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of nuclear arsenal. She and her fellow activists, The Plowshares Eight, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan, went to trial to sound the alarm, and the world was pulled back from the brink of nuclear annihilation for the time being.

Molly's Hammer is the fictionalised story of these events, inspired by the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman. Told with humour and love through the competing narratives of Molly and her working-class husband, Bill, Molly's Hammer shines a light of how the choice of ordinary people to take action is what is needed to save our world.
REVIEWS:

"A remarkable play that teaches you how to fear again in order to make you feel what's at risk if you don't take your chance to live."

 Riverfront Times

"[Tammy Ryan] does a solid job in showing the complexities of Molly Rush, a 'normal' citizen whose conscience helped make a difference in the world."

 Ladue News

"A quiet success, unleashing warmth and light and energy from an alternate Hollywood universe, and speaking of the darkest inhuman possibilities in the idealistic language of film romance."

 Alive Magazine

"If we don't know our own history, we're surely doomed to repeat it. That makes Molly's Hammer both special and important. It's a reminder that individuals can make a difference."

 Broadway World

"Gripping drama... Could not be more timely."

 Stage Left

"Deep and thought-provoking..."

 PLAYBACK.stl

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  • Casting: 2M, 1F

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In 1980, Molly Rush, a Pittsburgh housewife and mother of six, walked into a G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Penn., and took a hammer to the nose cone of a nuclear warhead in protest of the buildup of nuclear arsenal. She and her fellow activists, The Plowshares Eight, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan, went to trial to sound the alarm, and the world was pulled back from the brink of nuclear annihilation for the time being.

Molly's Hammer is the fictionalised story of these events, inspired by the book Hammer of Justice by Liane Ellison Norman. Told with humour and love through the competing narratives of Molly and her working-class husband, Bill, Molly's Hammer shines a light of how the choice of ordinary people to take action is what is needed to save our world.

$19.95

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